Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 11:00 PM CDT for Moody County, South Dakota. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1992, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moody County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 160401 SVRFSD SDC101-160430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1100 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...MOODY COUNTY SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE EGAN AND FLANDREAU. AT 1055 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLANDREAU SOUTH DAKOTA MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS...DON'T DRIVE INTO FLOODED CROSSINGS. UMLAND
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
Local storm report, Jun 15, 10:09 PM CDT, 51 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, 50 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, 48 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
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:39 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SDZ011-012-160440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 1040 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 100 AM CDT... AT 1030 PM CDT...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR ABERDEEN...TO DE SMET...TO YANKTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF BROOKINGS TO NEAR SIOUX FALLS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. FREDERICK
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:46 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SDZ018-020-IAZ01-MNZ17-160330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1045 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR JACKSON COUNTY MINNESOTA. RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JACKSON MINNESOTA MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. WATCH FOR LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREETS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR MINNEHAHA COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING SIOUX FALLS. WIND GUSTS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURRED WxITH THE SEVERE STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH SIOUX FALLS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE REISSUED FOR THE EAST PART OF THAT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA AND OSCEOLA COUNTY WILL BE ADDED. UMLAND
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:54 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SDZ018-020-IAZ01-MNZ17-160330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1053 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUED IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR JACKSON COUNTY MINNESOTA. RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JACKSON MINNESOTA MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SEVERE STORM. WATCH FOR LOCAL FLOODING OF ROADS AND STREETS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR MINNEHAHA COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA INCLUDING SIOUX FALLS. WIND GUSTS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING OCCURRED WITH THE SEVERE STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH SIOUX FALLS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE REISSUED FOR THE EAST PART OF LYON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST IOWA AND OSCEOLA COUNTY WILL BE ADDED. BIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Yankton | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Union | 15 min |
| Jun 15, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison, Hanson | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 13 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Tripp | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 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.