Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1990, 3:06 AM CDT for Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1990, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1990, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Murray County, MN
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
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KFSD 080807
SVRFSD
MNC101-080845-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
306 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
...NORTHERN MURRAY
AT 3 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE
PIPESTONE-MURRAY COUNTY LINE IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA OR ABOUT 50 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA.
AT 3 AM CDT TREES WERE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN NEAR LAKE WILSON MINNESOTA
IN WESTERN MURRARY 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.
THEOPHILUSWhat 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 8, 1:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 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
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:41 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SDZ010-011-015>020-080735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 140 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR A SMALL PART OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 125 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...CONTINUED OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HURON...BETWEEN) CARTHAGE AND OLDHAM...AND 40 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS...NEAR BRIDGEWATER. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. HUTCHEON
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SDZ018-080715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 2 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS MINNEHAHA COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 155 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH WERE OCCURRING WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. AT 138 AM CDT 50 MPH WINDS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WERE REPORTED AT WALL LAKE 12 MILES WEST OF SIOUX FALLS. AT 150 AM CDT 54 MPH WIND GUST WAS MEASURED AT SIOUX FALLS AIRPORT. AT 2 AM CDT AT 12TH AN MARION ROAD THE SKIRTING WAS BLOWN OFF SEVERAL TRAILER HOUSES. THE SEVERE THU@NDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AND PEOPLE IN BRANDON...GARRETSON...AND BALTIC SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR ALL OF MINNEHAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:15 AM CDT, 51 minutes before
SDZ***-***-***-***-***-***-***-***-***-***-***-MNZ***-IAZ***-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 220 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 AT 205 AM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINOUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WAS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST TO 10 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX FALLS. THE AIRPORT IN SIOUX FALLS REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 54 MILES AN HOUR FROM THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PIPESTONE AND ROCK COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... COVERED A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 70 MILES WEST OF MITCHELL TO 35 MILES NORTH OF BROOKINGS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN NORTHWEST IOWA FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY TO THE MINNESOTA IOWA BORDER NORTH OF SPENCER. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHEEHAN < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < IF YOU MUST GO OUTSIDE...AVOID OVEREXERTION...DRESS WARMLY WITH SEVERAL LAYERS OF WARM AND DRY CLOTHING AND WATCH FOR FROSTBITE. PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM THE COLD AS IT LOOSES HEAT VERY EASILY. KNOW YOUR LIMITS AND GET INSIDE WHEN CONDITIONS BECOME TOO MUCH. < < TRAVEL ONLY WHEN NECESSARY IN THESE EXTREME WINTER CONDITIONS. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL..MAINTAIN A FULL TANK OF GAS IN YOUR CAR..TRAVEL WITH ANOTHER PERSON..TRAVEL BY DAYLIGHT AND HAVE EMERGENCY WINTER STORM SUPPLIES IN YOUR CAR IN CASE YOU BECOME STRANDED. AN EMERGENCY WINTER STORM SUPPLY KIT SHOULD INCLUDE...SAND...SHOVEL...WINDSHIELD SCRAPER... BOOSTER CABLES...FLASHLIGHT AND EXTRA FOOD AND BLANKETS. ABOVE ALL... BE PREPARED IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. < < IN THE HOME...USE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF HEAT WISELY. THESE TYPES OF HEAT CAN BE KEROSENE HEATERS..FIREPLACES AND WOOD BURNING STOVES. WINTER HOME FIRES CAN BE DEADLY. IF HEAT IS LOST IN YOUR HOME... CLOSE OFF ALL BUT ONE ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE...USE YOUR ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF HEAT AND DREES WARMLY WITH SEVERAL LAYERS OF WARM AND DRY CLOTHING. HAVE ON HAND EXTRA FOOD...FLASHLIGHT AND BLANKETS. ABOVE ALLJ...BE PREPARED IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:18 AM CDT, 48 minutes before
SDZ015>020-MNZ017-IAZ004-080815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 217 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 AT 205 AM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINOUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX FALLS. THE AIRPORT IN SIOUX FALLS REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 54 54 MILES AN HOUR FROM THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PIPESTONE AND ROCK COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... COVERED A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 70 MILES WEST OF MITCHELL TO 35 MILES NORTH OF BROOKINGS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN NORTHWEST IOWA FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY TO THE MINNESOTA IOWA BORDER NORTH OF SPENCER. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SHEEHAN < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < IF YOU MUST GO OUTSIDE...AVOID OVEREXERTION...DRESS WARMLY WITH SEVERAL LAYERS OF WARM AND DRY CLOTHING AND WATCH FOR FROSTBITE. PROTECT YOUR HEAD FROM THE COLD AS IT LOOSES HEAT VERY EASILY. KNOW YOUR LIMITS AND GET INSIDE WHEN CONDITIONS BECOME TOO MUCH. < < TRAVEL ONLY WHEN NECESSARY IN THESE EXTREME WINTER CONDITIONS. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL..MAINTAIN A FULL TANK OF GAS IN YOUR CAR..TRAVEL WITH ANOTHER PERSON..TRAVEL BY DAYLIGHT AND HAVE EMERGENCY WINTER STORM SUPPLIES IN YOUR CAR IN CASE YOU BECOME STRANDED. AN EMERGENCY WINTER STORM SUPPLY KIT SHOULD INCLUDE...SAND...SHOVEL...WINDSHIELD SCRAPER... BOOSTER CABLES...FLASHLIGHT AND EXTRA FOOD AND BLANKETS. ABOVE ALL... BE PREPARED IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. < < IN THE HOME...USE ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF HEAT WISELY. THESE TYPES OF HEAT CAN BE KEROSENE HEATERS..FIREPLACES AND WOOD BURNING STOVES. WINTER HOME FIRES CAN BE DEADLY. IF HEAT IS LOST IN YOUR HOME... CLOSEK OFF ALL BUT ONE ROOM IN YOUR HOUSE...USE YOUR ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF HEAT AND DREES WARMLY WITH SEVERAL LAYERS OF WARM AND DRY CLOTHING. HAVE ON HAND EXTRA FOOD...FLASHLIGHT AND BLANKETS. ABOVE ALL...BE PREPARED IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:38 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
SDZ010-011-012-015-016-017-018-080735- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 235 AM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR A SMALL PART OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 225 AM CDT...NUMEROUS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS JUST NORTH OF GARRETSON AND ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OFWHILTE OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROOKINGS AND ALSO ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF HURON NEAR BONILLA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MILLERi
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 | Pipestone, Rock | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone, Rock | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.