Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 28, 1986Bon Homme County, Yankton County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1986, 8:32 PM CDT for Bon Homme County, Yankton County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1986, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1986, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bon Homme County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 9:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Yankton, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1986-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 640 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1986-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 290132
SVRFSD
SDC009-135-290230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
832 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHEAST BON-HOMME AND SOUTHERN YANKTON

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE ADJACENT WATERS OF THE MISSOURI RIVER.

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN SOUTHEAST SOUTHDAKOTA ARE TYNDALL
..TABOR AND YANKTON.

AT 825 PM CDT  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF
TYNDALL SOUTH DAKOTA MOVINF EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH..HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER..DEADLY LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN
THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.

BEHREND

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 8:24 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
820 PM CDT SAT JUN 28 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
UNTIL 9 PM MDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT
IN WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

HOWEVER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EXTREME SOUTHERN SOUTH
DAKOTA THIS EVENING MAY BECOME SEVERE NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER.

RYRHOLM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Yankton56 min
Jun 28, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme56 min
Jun 29, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDGregory34 min
Jun 29, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson58 min
Jun 29, 4:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson, Turner, Yankton39 min
Jun 29, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Turner, Yankton56 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner38 min
Jun 29, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBon Homme, Yankton58 min
Jun 29, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay58 min
Jun 29, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion66 min
Jun 29, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.