Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1990, 1:40 AM CDT for McCook County, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1990, 1:40 AM CDT (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1990, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McCook County, SD, Minnehaha 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1810 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFSD 080642
SVRFSD
SDC087-099-080715-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
140 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA
...EASTERN MCCOOK...MINNEHAHA
AT 135 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF
SIOUX FALLS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
SOME CITIES IN THE WARNING ARE CANISTOTA...HARTFORD...SIOUX FALLS...
BRANDON...AND GARRETSON SOUTH DAKOTA.
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PA*TH 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.
UMLANDWhat 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, Jul 7, 11:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SDZALL-080515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1120 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... AT 11 PM CDT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA INTO THE NORTHEAST. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SKIES OVER THE STATE WERE PARTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 63 AT CUSTER TO 86 AT SIOUX FALLS. THROUGH 1 AM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLY SEVERE IN THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST. SKIES WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S EAST TO THE LOWER TO MID 80S EAST. BEHREND
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 11:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SDZ004-016-017-019-080535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 1155 PM CDT SAT JUL 7 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 1130 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE OVER NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA IN A 60 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABERDEEN TO 80 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABERDEEN NEAR THE NORTH DAKOTA BORDER. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES EAST OF ABERDEEN. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURON TO 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAMBERLAIN NEAR THE NEBRASKA BORDER. AILL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. FREDERICK
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 12:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SDZALL-080615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1215 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT... AT MIDNIGHT CDT A SAMLL AREA OR THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SOUTH DAKOTA. A SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEAST. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WAS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 86 DEGREES IN SIOUX FALLS TO 65 DEGREES AT CUSTER. THROUGH 2 AM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHEAST WILL MOVE OUT OF THE STATE WHILE THE OTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVES INTO THE SOUTHEAST SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL 2 TO 4 DEGREES IN THE WEST...AND 4 TO 6 DEGREES IN THE EAST WITH LARGER FLUCTUATIONS NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS. ^ UMLAND
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 12:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SDZ015>020-MNZ017-IAZ001-080630 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1233 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 AT 1225 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND WERE DEVELOPING OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST STORMS THAT COULD BE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WERE JUST NORTH OF MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MITCHELL NEAR STICKNEY SOUTH DAKOTA...AND 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF MITCHELL. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX FALLS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHWEST IOWA ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS OR WEST OF GEORGE IOWA...AND 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR SIOUX CENTER IOWA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE IOWA...MINNESOTA LINE SOUTH OF qWORTHINGTON MINNESOTA AND 25 MILES EASTSOUTHEAST OF WORTHINGTON. THEOPHILUS
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 12:49 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
SDZ005-011-015>017-019-080635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 1248 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 1230 AM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL CONTINUED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF A LINE FROM CHAMBERLAIN TO MITCHELL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE IN THE HURON AREA BY 100 AM CDT. ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER NORTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING OUT OF SOUTH DAKOTA BY 100 AM CDT. HUTCHEON
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:16 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
SDZ015>020-MNZ017-IAZ001-080715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 116 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 AT 1AM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF MITCHELL NEAR CARTHAGE AND VILAS SOUTH DAKOTA AND 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MITCHELL OR JUST WEST OF BRIDGEWATER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF BROOKINGS TO NEAR YANKTON. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA TO THE IOWA MINNESOTA BORDER SOUTH OF WORTHINGTON MINNESOTA. SHEEHAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 32 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.