Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT for Faulk County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 6, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1987, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Faulk 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Faulk, 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABR 062330 TORABR SDC049-070000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 630 PM CDT MON JUL 6 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...FAULK SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE SENECA AND FAULKTON. AT 625 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ONAKA SOUTH DAKOTA OR 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABERDEEN SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde | 67 min |
| Jul 6, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hand | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde | 10 min |
| Jul 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.