Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 16, 1992Charles Mix County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 1:03 PM CDT for Charles Mix County, South Dakota. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1992, 1:03 PM CDT (18:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1992, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Charles Mix County, SD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 1:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Charles Mix, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 161804
SVRFSD
SDC023-161830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
103 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN CHARLES-MIX COUNTY
 
AT 100 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF PLATT.
IT WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
 
DIME SIZE AND LARGER HAIL IS LIKELY OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
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.

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 16, 8:22 AM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

SDZ010-161500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
825 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

...DENSE FOG CONTINUES IN THE PIERRE AREA...

DENSE FOG CONTINUES ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER IN THE PIERRE AREA.
VISIBILITY WAS 1/8 OF A MILE IN PIERRE AT 8 AM CDT.

THE FOG IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN A SLOW IMPROVEMENT AND BE DISSIPATED
BY MID MORNING.

WHEN TRAVELING IN THE PIERRE AREA ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER THIS
MORNING USE CAUTION.  ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION
SAFELY.  USE LOW BEAMS ON YOUR HEADLIGHTS.  LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

TINGLEY

Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:22 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT FOR MON JUN 15 1992
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1020 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

COUNTY/STATE   TIME          EVENT

MINNEHAHA/SD   1030 PM CDT   FREESTALL BARN FOR DAIRY OPS DESTROYED
               6/15/92       ABOUT 3 MI E BRANDON SD.

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:01 AM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

SDZALL-162100-

SOUTH DAKOTA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1100 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO OUTBREAK EXPECTED THIS EVENING
   AND TONIGHT IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED IN WESTERN KANSAS THIS MORNING
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST RESULTING IN SEVERE WEATHER OVER
THE UPPER MIDWEST. EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA WILL BE AT RISK LATE THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL
DEVELOP RAPIDLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
STRONG DAMAGING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE SEVERE
WEATHER WILL MOST LIKELY LINGER UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING.

THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES OF THE STATE WILL BE THE AREA THAT WILL BE
MOST AT RISK.

PEOPLE IN SOUTH DAKOTA...ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST
COUNTIES SHOULD CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQIREMENTS THIS AFTERNOON.
YOU SHOULD KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD DO AND WHERE YOU WOULD GO
IN THE EVENT THAT YOU ARE THREATENED BY A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE
INSIDE A BUILDING...YOU SHOULD GO TO THE BASEMENT OR TO A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...YOU SHOULD
SEEK SHELTER IN DITCH OR OTHER LOWx PROTECTED AREA.

KRIEHN

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:15 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

IAZ001-004-005-161810-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
1209 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE OVER THE SIOUXLAND AREA LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT...

AT NOON CLOUDS WERE BREAKING UP AND THE SUN WAS SENDING TEMPERATURES
INTO THE LOWER 80S.

THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE WINDY AND HUMID. LAKE WIND ADVISORIES ARE IN
EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM DUE TO SOUTHEAST WIND INCREASING TO 15 TO 30 MPH.

RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO THE WEST OF THE
SIOUXLAND AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THEY WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST. SOME SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BY LATE AFTERNOON.

PEOPLE IN THE SIOUXLAND AREA SHOULD REVIEW SAFETY RULES SO YOU WILL
KNOW WHAT ACTION TO TAKE IF A TORNADO OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREATENS.

J QUINN

Local storm report, Jun 16, 12:34 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
1230 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

TIME            EVENT AND LOCATION

LATE REPORT FOR STORMS ON 6/15/92 IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

1030 TO        SPOTTER REOPRTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS OVER ROSALIE. ONE
1045 PM CDT    HAD POSSIBLE CONTACT WITH THE GROUND SOUTHWEST OF
               ROSALIE BUT LIFTED BEFORE MOVING OVER THE TOWN. SOME
               6 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN.

1030 PM CDT    CUMING COUNTY SHERIFF AND CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED SOME
               HOUSES DAMAGED AND TREES DOWN IN BANCROFT...BANCROFT
               IS JUST WEST OF THE CUMING/THURSTON COUNTY BORDER. A
               WALL WAS BLOWN OFF ONE HOUSE AND PART OF A ROOF WAS
               BLOWN OFF ONE HOUSE.

J QUINN

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 12:43 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

SDZ017-019-161830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1240 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND
   SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 1235 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE
FROM 15 MILES EAST OF MITCHELL TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF PICKSTOWN NEAR
THE MISSOURI RIVER.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.  HOWEVER THEY MAY
BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

RUBY

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 15, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Moody	30 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, 1992 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.