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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 15, 1992Sioux County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 9:55 PM CDT for Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1992, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1992, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Sioux County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1992-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 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 KFSD 160256
SVRFSD
IAC167-160345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
955 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS

What 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, Jun 15, 5:55 PM CDT, 4 hours before
SDZ012-017-108-019-020-152330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
553 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...

THE EAST CENTRAL BORDER AREA OF SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING BROOKINGS...
MADISON...AND FLANDREAU REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL
10 PM CDT.  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING TO THE NORTHWEST OF
EXTREME EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND A NORTHWARD MOVEMENT WILL KEEP
THESE THUNDERSTORMS OUT OF THE EXTREME EAST CENTRAL.

HOWEVER A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
YANKTON NEAR SCOTLAND AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH AT 20 MPH. VERY
HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE BRUNT OF THIS STORM JUST WEST OF
SCOTLAND AT 5 50 PM CDT IN EXTREME NORTHERN BON HOMME COUNTY IS
EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL HUTCHISON COUNTY B7Y 6 10 PM JUST
EAST OF TRIPP. PERSONS IN NORTHERN BON HOMME COUNTY AND SOUTHERN
HUTCHISON COUNTIES ARE ADVISED TO KEEP ALERT AND BE READY TO
TAKE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACH YOUR AREA.

BIER
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SDZ012-017-108-019-020-152330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
618 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF YANKTON NEAR OLIVET
WAS MOVING NORTHWARD ACROSS CENTRAL HUTICHISON COUNTY AT 25 MPH. VERY
HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE BRUNT OF THIS STORM JUST WEST OF
OLIVET AT 615 PM CDT IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE TOWNS OF WOLF CREEK
AND TSCHETTER COLONY BY 625 PM AND BE NEAR THE CLAYTON AND MILLTOWN
AREAS BY 630 PM CDT.

PERSONS IN HUTCHISON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL
PARTS OF THE COUNTY ARE ADVISED TO KEEP ALERT AND BE READY TO
TAKE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACH YOUR AREA.

BIER
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
SDZ012-017-018-019-020-152330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
633 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 630 PM AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING 25 TO 50 MPH
NORTH OF YANKTON IN AN AREA APPROXIMATELY BOUNDED BY THE TOWNS OF
ALEXANDRIA IN CENTRAL HANSON COUNTY...CLAYTON IN NORTHEAST HUTCHISON AND
MARION IN NORTHWEST TURNER COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH
AT 25 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...PEA SIZED HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS AROUND 35 MPH.

PERSONS IN NORTHEAST HUTCHISON...NORTHWEST TURNER...HANSON AND MCCOOK
COUNTIES OF SOUTHE]AST SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN A
REINFORCED BUILDING SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH YOUR AREA.

BIER
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
IAZ001-004-005-040830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
838 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SIOUXLAND AREA UNTIL 1 AM CDT...

NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN THE SIOUXLAND AREA AT 835 PM....
HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.
SHOWERS WERE ALSO LOCATED 25 MILES WEST OF SIOUX CITY. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SIOUXLAND AREA THIS EVENING.
IF THREATENING APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE QUICKLY.

HOPPES
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 9:41 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SDZ011-012-160340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
941 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992

...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 100 AM CDT...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH LARGE PART OF SOUTH DAKAOTA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

AT 930 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...
HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.
THE STORMS WERE NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM MOBRIDGE TO HURON TO NEAR
YANKTON.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 20 MILE WIDE LINE FROM THE NORTH
DAKOTA BORDER NORTHEAST OF ABERDEEN...TO NEAR BROOKINGS.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

FREDERICK
Local storm report, Jun 15, 9:54 PM CDT, 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
954 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1992

TIME            EVENT AND LOCATION

855 PM CDT     SEVERAL ONE FOOT DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN. SEVERAL
               POWER LINES DOWN. ONE HALF TO 3/4 INCH OF RAIN IN
               A SHORT PERIOD.

...TIME IS APPROXIMATE...

J QUINN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon45 min
Jun 15, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon, Osceola54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.