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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 6, 1992Marshall County, South Dakota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1992-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1992-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 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.

STUDNICKA

What 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown49 min
Sep 6, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown32 min
Sep 6, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown32 min
Sep 6, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall69 min
Sep 6, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown61 min
Sep 6, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo52 min
Sep 6, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall60 min
Sep 6, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown55 min
Sep 6, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBuffalo, Jerauld42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.