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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 20, 1989Aurora County, Davison County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1989, 9:08 PM CDT for Aurora County, Davison County, South Dakota. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1989, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1989, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Aurora County, SD, Davison 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 1989-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1989-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 20, 7:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
740 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1989

    ...THUNDERSTORMS BOIL UP IN SOUTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 740 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE QUICKLY DEVELOPING
OVER SOUTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA
FROM AROUND BONESTEEL TO STICKNEY...OR ABOUT 60 TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST
AT ABOUT 30 MPH ALONG A COLD FRONT. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA FROM AROUND
BONESTEEL TO MITCHELL SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS THIS
EVENING THROUGH AT LEAST 10 PM CDT.

BOATERS ON LAKE FRA;NCIS CASE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR SINCE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.
KAPELA
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
745 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1989

AT 730 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL HAD
BEGUN MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA FROM NEBRASKA. THE STORM
WAS NEAR BONESTEEL...WHICH IS 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MITCHELL.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...AND STRONG WIND IS LIKELY IN THE AREA
ALONG AND 15 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A ALINE FROM BONESTEEL TO PLATTE...
WHICH IS 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MITCHELL.

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Gregory30 min
Jun 20, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Douglas33 min
Jun 20, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, Hutchinson30 min
Jun 20, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson, McCook, Turner51 min
Jun 20, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner37 min
Jun 20, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha49 min
Jun 20, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha, Moody43 min
Jun 20, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix31 min
Jun 21, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule38 min
Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon52 min
Jun 21, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux25 min
Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.