Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1988, 6:55 PM CDT for Hand County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 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 28, 1988, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1988, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hand 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 28, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hand, 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, 11.9 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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 KHON 282355
TORHON
SDC059-290030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
655 PM CDT THU JUL 28 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
HAND
SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE MILLER AND
ST. LAWRENCE.
AT 546 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
MILLER...30 MILES WEST OF HURON.
AT 542 PM CDT THE SHERIFF OF HAND COUNTY REPORTED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILLER.
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.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 28, 6:48 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 645 PM CDT THU JUL 28 1988 ...VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SPINK COUNTY... AT 645 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN TULARE AND REDFIELD MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. RESIDENTS IN REDFIELD...TULARE AND FRANKFORT CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS. RESIDENT SHOULD 0REMAIN ALERT AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BECOME SEVERE WITH LITTLE WARNING. GILLESPIE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 56 min |
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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.