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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 15, 1990Hanson County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1990, 10:27 PM CDT for Hanson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1990, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1990, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hanson 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -285 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 898 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 160328 RRA
SVRFSD
SDC061-160400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1027 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
          ...NORTHERN HANSON
 
SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE FULTON.
 
AT 1025 PM CDT RADAR INDCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF
MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING EAST AT 30 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.
BEHREND

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 15, 7:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

SDZ010-011-016-160100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
719 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

AT 715 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN WERE IN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM 45 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF PIERRE...NEAR KENNEBEC TO 30 MILES WEST OF HURON.  THE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.  PEOPLE IN THE PATH
OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

HUTCHEON

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

SDZ017-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1005 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 10 PM CDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED
MOVING ACROSS DAVISON COUNTY NEAR MITCHELL.
THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS IT MOVES
TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE COUNTIES OF DAVISON AND HANSON INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES
OF ALEXANDRIA AND MITCHELL SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THIS STORM THROUGH 11 PM CDT.

SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED SOUTH OF SIOUX FALLS
EXTENDING FROM BERESFORD TO MARION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Davison	46 min
Jun 15, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	31 min
Jun 15, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lake	25 min
Jun 16, 1:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Mellette	52 min
Jun 16, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	29 min
Jun 16, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	39 min
Jun 16, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay, Lincoln	29 min
Jun 16, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Union	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1990 Every 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.