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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 6, 1992Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1992, 4:28 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 6, 1992, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1992, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Brown County, SD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Sep 6, 4:31 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Brown, SD
Sep 6, 4:36 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Brown, SD
Sep 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Brown, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1184 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABR 062128
TORABR
SDC013-062200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
428 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
      NORTHERN BROWN

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE WESTPORT...
COLUMBIA AND BARNARD.

AT 426 PM CDT   A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED AND OBSERVED BY
WEATHER SPOTTERS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ABERDEEN MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT
SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR
A REINFORCED BUILDING.

STUDNICKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	49 min
Sep 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	32 min
Sep 6, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall	69 min
Sep 6, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	61 min
Sep 6, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo	52 min
Sep 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Marshall	32 min
Sep 6, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall	60 min
Sep 6, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown	55 min
Sep 6, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Jerauld	42 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.