Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1990, 10:07 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1990, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1990, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charles Mix 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KFSD 020309
SVRFSD
SDC023-043-035-061-067-020400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1007 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
...EASTERN CHARLES-MIX...DOUGLAS
IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
...DAVISON...HANSON...WESTERN HUTCHINSON
SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE ALEXANDRIA...PARKSTON...
TRIPP...LAKE ANDES...WAGNER...AND PICKSTOWN.
AT 1005 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM JUST EAST OF MITCHELL DOWN TO JUST WEST OF
PICKSTOWN...OR ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF YANKTON. THIS LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
SEVERAL FARMERS IN DAVISON COUNTY REPORTED WIND GUSTS TO 60 TO
70 MPH AS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ROLLED THROUGH THAT COUNTY.
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.
KAPELAWhat 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 1, 8:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SDZ003-004-010-011-015-016-019-010245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 845 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 830 PM CDT...A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE MOVING INTO EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE LINE WAS 30 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM xTHE NORTH DAKOTA BORDER 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF ABERDEEN TO THE NEBRASKA BORDER 35 MILE SOUTHEAST OF WINNER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HUTCHEON
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
SDZ016-017-019-020215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 905 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE ADJACENT COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 9 PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA FROM BRULE COUNTY NEAR KIMBALL SOUTHWARD THROUGH GREGORY COUNTY INTO NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND MAY PRODUCE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA COUNTIES OF BRULE...GEROGORY...CHARLES MIX ...AURORA...AND WESTERN DOUGLAS INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF KIMBALL... PLANKINTON...PLATTE AND GEOGORY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDER/ STORMS UNITL 1015 PM CDT. BUSS
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SDZ016-017-019-020315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 905 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE ADJACENT COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 9 PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA FROM BRULE COUNTY NEAR KIMBALL SOUTHWARD THROUGH GREGORY COUNTY INTO NEBRASKA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND MAY PRODUCE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA COUNTIES OF BRULE...GEROGORY...CHARLES MIX ...AURORA...AND WESTERN DOUGLAS INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF KIMBALL... PLANKINTON...PLATTE AND GEOGORY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDER/ STORMS UNITL 1015 PM CDT. BUSS
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:39 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
SDZ019-020-020415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 935 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE ADJACENT COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 3 AM CDT... AT 930 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 5 MILES WEST OF PICKSTOWN SOUTH DAKOTA ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER OR ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH AVON SOUTH DAKOTA OR ABOUT 35 MILES WEST OF YANKTON BY 10 PM CDT. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN CHARLES MIX...BON HOMME...AND YANKTON COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD BE ALERT TO THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THEIR AREA. DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINS AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY BE PRODUCED BY THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED GO IMMEDIATELY TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. DIRCKSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:40 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
IAZ004-020310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 940 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 AT 935 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA THAT INCLUDED SIOUX COUNTY. THERE WAS NO PRECIPITATION IN THE SIOUXLAND AREA. THE OUTLOOK THROUGH 1015 PM CDT IS FOR A CLOUDY SKY OVER THE SIOUXLAND AREA. THE@ WIND WILL BE FROM THE SOUTH AT 15 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR WITH GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE UPPER 70S. KROPP
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:54 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SDZ004-011-016-017-019-020345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 1050 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 1990 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CDT FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 930 PM CDT...A SOLID LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WIRH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WAS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE LINE WAS 40 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM THE NORTH DAKOTA BORDER 30 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF ABERDEEN TO THE NEBRASKA BORDER 65 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF YANKTON. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST 45 MILES AN HOUR. HUTCHEON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brule | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook | 40 min |
| Jun 2, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 23 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.