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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 11, 1987Hutchinson County, Turner County, Yankton County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1987, 9:14 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, Turner County, Yankton County, South Dakota. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1987, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1987, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hutchinson County, SD, Turner 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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 1987-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 375 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 1987-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
375 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 120214
SVRFSD
SDC067-125-135-120315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
914 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
          ...EASTERN HUTCHINSON...TURNER...NORTHERN YANKTON
 
SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE MENNO...FREEMAN...PARKER...AND MIDWAY.
 
AT 910 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
EAST PART OF HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...YOU SHOULD GET TO A
REINFORCED SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES 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.
 
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
KOSCIELSKI

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, Jul 11, 5:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
515 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987

...INTENSE THUNDERSORMS ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHWEST IOWA...

AT 5 PM SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CON/
TINUED ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA.

THESE STORMS WERE IN A BAND EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX
FALLS...NEAR HUDSON SOUTH DAKOTA TO 75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX
FALLS...NEAR HARTLEY IOWA. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
NEAR HUDSON SOUTH DAKOTA AND JUST NORTHEAST OF SANBORN IOWA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL
...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA OF LINCOLN INCLUDING THE COMMUMITIES OF
HUDSON AND THE THE IOWA COUNITES SIOUX...OSCEOLA AND OBRIEN INCLUDING
THE COMMUNITIES OF SIOUX CENTER...HULL...AND SANBORN SHOULD BE ON MTHE
LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS THROUGH 7 PM CDT.

STAY TUNDED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS
BUSS
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
605 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987

AT 6 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...
CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA.

THESE STORMS WERE IN A SMALL BAND JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST
OF SIOUX FALLS AND ANOTHER SMALL BAND WAS LOCATED 60 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR KINGSLEY IOWA.  THE STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF SIOUX FALLS AND SHOULD BE
MOVING INTO SIOUX FALLS BY 630 PM CDT.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL
...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE
NORTHEST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
BUSS
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
^DSMSPSSUX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
610 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS SATUDAY NIGHT...

AT 605 PM CDT AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED 10 MILES
EAST OF LAWTON IOWA OR 25 MILES EAST OF SIOUX CITY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST WOODBURY...CHEROKEE AND NORTHERN IDA COUNTIES IN
IOWA SHOULD BE ALERT AND{ BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF SEVERE WEATHER IS
OBERVED. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG
GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
ROSNER
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 7:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
715 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987

...INTENSE THUNDERSORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE ACROSS SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 7 PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
FALL CONTINUED TO DEVELOPE ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

THE LINE EXTENDED FROM 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR
PICKSTOWN TO 70 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR CARTHAGE.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...
SMALL HAIL...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY
MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA COUNTIES OF MINER...DAVISON...HANSON
...DOUGLAS AND CHARLES MIX INC+LUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF PICKSTOWN
...ARMOUR...MITCHELL AND VILAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE
STORMS THROUGH 9 PM CDT.

PERSONS SHOULD STAY TUNED TO THEIR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
BUSS
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 8:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
805 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 8 PM CDT A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED
ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.

THE LINE EXTENDED FROM 70 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR
PICKSTOWN TO 60 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR BROOKINGS.

THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINw AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
SMALL HAIL...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY
MOVE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
BUSS
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 8:40 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
835 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT THIS SATURDAY NIGHT...

AT 830 PM CDT...NUMEROUS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
CONTINUED OVER MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS BOUNDED BY THE MISSOURI RIVER AND THE
EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 20 MILES
WEST OF HURON...NEAR WOLSEY...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR
SALEM AND 25 MILES EAST OF MOBRIDGE...NEAR JAVA.

ALL MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS YOU SHOULD
TAKE COVER.

THE HURON AREA CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING
...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL BEFORE 900 PM CDT.
EDDY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay, Lincoln50 min
Jul 11, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDYankton50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

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