Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 10:21 PM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1992, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1992, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFSD 160321
SVRFSD
MNC063-160415-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1021 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF MINNESOTA
JACKSON
SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE PETERSBURG AND
LAKEVIEW.
AT 1019 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN
JACKSON COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF LAKEVIEW...OR ABOUT 25
MILES EAST OF WORTHINGTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES
AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING 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.
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR
NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
MENTZERWhat 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, 9:41 PM CDT, 40 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, 27 minutes 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 QUINNLocal storm report, Jun 15, 9:56 PM CDT, 25 minutes 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
E POWER LINES DOWN. ONE HALF TO 3/4 INCH OF RAIN IN
A SHORT PERIOD. IN AND AROUND DIXON IN DIXON COUNTY
NEBRASKA.
...TIME IS APPROXIMATE... CORRECTED FOR LOCATION...
J QUINNLocal storm report, Jun 15, 10:09 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
1008 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1992
TIME EVENT AND LOCATION
945 PM CDT AN 8 INCH DIAMETER TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN. SOME TREE LIMBS
[ DOWN. MARBLE SIZE HAIL. HEAVY WIND. HEAVY RAIN. IN
BERESFORD IN UNION COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA.
...TIME IS APPROXIMATE...
J QUINNSpecial weather statement, Jun 15, 10:10 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
IAZ001-004-005-160400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 1009 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SIOUXLAND AREA UNTIL 1 AM CDT... THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY AT 1007 PM. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM PENDER NEBRASKA TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY NEAR STRUBLE IOWA. 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, 10:12 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SDZ018-020-IAZ01-MNZ17-160330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1012 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR SIOUX COUNTY IOWA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN YANKTON AND CLAY COUNTIES OF SOUTH DAKOTA... LYON COUNTY IOWA...AND NOBLES COUNTY MINNESOTA HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE WEATHER IS VERY UNSTABLE AND PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...AND NORTHWEST IOWA SHOULD BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS THROUGH 1 AM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND ADJOINING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST IOWA AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. UMLAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Pipestone | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Murray | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 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.