Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1992, 5:58 PM CDT for Marshall County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1992, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KABR 062258
TORABR
SDC091-062330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
558 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
EASTERN MARSHALL
SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE LAKE CITY.
AT 555 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED AT 4 MILE LAKE OR
14 MILES EAST OF BRITTON OR 60 EAST NORTHEAST OF ABERDEEN MOVING
EAST AT 25 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.
STUDNICKAWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 6, 5:44 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 543 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992 STORM DATA FOR SUNDAY SEP 6 1992 TIME COUNTY..LOCATION CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE ....................................................................... 426 PM CDT BROWN...ABERDEEN 5N. FUNNEL...DUTY NWS OBSERVER. 431 PM CDT BROWN...ABERDEEN 7N. GOLFBALL HAIL. (POLICE). 436 PM CDT BROWN...FREDRICK 5W. MARBEL HAIL. (SPOTTER). 510 PM CDT BROWN...HOUGHTON 4W. MARBEL HAIL. (SPOTTER). 536 PM CDT BROWN...HOUGHTON. MARBEL HAIL. (SPOTTER). 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, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown | 32 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, 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 |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.