Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1990, 12:17 AM CDT for Brule County, Gregory County, South Dakota. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1990, 12:17 AM CDT (05:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1990, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brule County, SD, Gregory 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 962 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KFSD 230520
SVRFSD
SDC015-023-043-053-230545-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1217 AM CDT WED MAY 23 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
...SOUTHEASTERN BRULE...CHARLES-MIX...WESTERN DOUGLAS
...SOUTHEASTERN GREGORY...WESTERN BON-HOMME...
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE ADJACENT WATERS OF THE MISSOURI RIVER.
SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE NEW HOLLAND ...PLATTE
....PICKSTOWN ... BONESTEEL ...WAGNER AND AVON.
AT 1210 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
100 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS NORTH OF PLATTE SOUTH DAKOTA TO 95 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS EAST OF BONESTEEL SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING
EASTSOUTHEAST AT 20 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.
BLOOMWhat 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, May 22, 11:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SDZ017>020-MNZ017-230500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1102 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM... AT 11 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. IN SOUTH DAKOTA THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A LINE FROM 100 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR LAKE FRANCIS TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR ILENE. ANOTHER AREA OF STRON THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 45 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR BROOKINGS. IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR SLAYTON. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCINGA HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
IAZ004-230500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 1110 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 2 AM CDT... AT 11:10 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM ELK POINT SOUTH DAKOTA...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY...EXTENDING NORTHWEST TO 100 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTOMS WERE NORTH AND WEST OF YANKTON. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING IN WESTERN IOWA. NO RAIN WAS DETECTED IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WIND AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. QUINN
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:17 PM CDT, 1 hour before
SDZ017-MNZ017-230430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1116 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR BROOKINGS COUNTY OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND FOR NORTHERN MURRAY AND NORTHERN PIPESTONE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 1115 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEAR TO BE SEVERE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS TOR JUST WEST OF BROOKINGS...AND 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR SLAYTON MINNESOTA. ALTHOUGH THESE STORMS NO LONGER APPEAR TO BE SEVERE...THEY ARE STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:42 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
IAZ004-230600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 1140 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 2 AM CDT... AT 11:40 PM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WITHIN 35 MILES OF THE MISSOURI RIVER IN WEST IOWA. ONE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ALCESTER SOUTH DAKOTA OR 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY. ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTH OF ONAWA IOWA OR 40 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WIND AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. QUINN
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:50 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 1145 PM CDT TUE MAY 22 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUED FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...PARTS OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND PARTS OF NORTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 200 AM CDT... AT 1130 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF A HURON/BROOKINGS LINE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY NEAR WILLOW LAKE OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF HURON. ELSEWHERE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF A CHAMBERLAIN/MITCHELL/BERESFORD LINE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF PICKSTOWN. MOVEMENT OF ALL STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MILLER
Special weather statement, May 23, 12:00 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
SDZ015>017-019-020-MNZ017-IAZ001-230630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1200 AM CDT WED MAY 23 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CHARLES MIX COUNTY AND FOR SOUTHEAST GREGORY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 1215 PM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT FOR EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS...CONTINUED TO MOVE OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RESIDENTS AND THOSE TRAVELING IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THIS ADVERSE WEATHER. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER OF HAIL OR STRONG WINDS THREATEN. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN THESE AREAS THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. BLOOM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 53 min |
| May 22, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Charles Mix, Douglas | 48 min |
| May 22, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 37 min |
| May 22, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Douglas, Hutchinson | 52 min |
| May 22, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 52 min |
| May 22, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 37 min |
| May 22, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 37 min |
| May 22, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 50 min |
| May 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison, Douglas, Hutchinson | 45 min |
| May 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 45 min |
| May 22, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Tripp | 37 min |
| May 22, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 40 min |
| May 23, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.