Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1990, 8:04 PM CDT for Hughes County, South Dakota. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1990, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hughes 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 4027 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KHON 260104
TORHON
SDC065-260130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
804 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
EASTERN HUGHES
SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE DEBRAY
AT 800 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
OVER EASTERN HUGHES COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING OR A LOW AREA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 67 min |
| Aug 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde | 68 min |
| Aug 25, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 31 min |
| Aug 25, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk, Spink | 41 min |
| Aug 25, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Day | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington, Hamlin | 68 min |
| Aug 25, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 36 min |
| Aug 25, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hyde | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, McPherson | 25 min |
| Aug 26, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 62 min |
| Aug 26, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson, Dewey | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 3:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.