Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1988, 5:07 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1988, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1988, 5:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, SD, Turner 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KFSD 312208 RRA
TORFSD
SDC083-125-312245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
507 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
...NORTHERN LINCOLN...NORTHEASTERN TURNER
AT 503 PM CDT THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 2
MILES EAST OF DAVIS SOUTH DAKOTA IN TURNER COUNTY.
CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE DAVIS...LENNOX...TEA...WORTHING...ANHARRISBURG.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE MCAUGHT
IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG
BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR
LOW SPOT.
ANDERSON/KAPELAWhat 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, May 31, 4:13 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 410 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1988 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 405 PM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS PASSING THROUGH WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA...AND PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. SMALL HAIL WAS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED NORTH AT 30 MPH. SHOULD THIS STORM HOLD TOGETHER IT WILL PASS THROUGH THE FULDA TO SLAYTON AREA BETWEEN 415 PM AND 515 PM CDT. KAPELA
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:40 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 445 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1988 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN LOCAL TRI STATE AREA... AT 435 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME INTENSE...WERE MOVING NORTH ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. A FEW STORMS HAVE PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF INCH IN A HALF HOUR AND HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS NEAR 55 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THESE CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE "LOCAL AREA THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. ANDERSON
Local storm report, May 31, 4:55 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
500 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1988
STORM DATA FOR MAY 31 1988
TIME COUNTY..LOCATION CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
.......................................................................
400 PM CDT NOBLES...(MINNESOTA) TSTM WND...67 MPH REPORTED
3W OTG BY RADIO STATION WITH
CALIBRATED WIND INSTRUMENT
...SMALL HAIL (SIZE UNKNOWN)
... 1/2 INCH RAIN/1/2 HOUR
430 PM CDT MINNEHAHA...11 WSW TSTM WND 35 MPH...1/4 INCH
SIOUX FALL6S DIAMETER HAIL.
ANDERSONNearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.