Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1992, 5:34 PM CDT for Brookings County, South Dakota. It was in force for 13 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1992, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1992, 5:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brookings County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 162235 SVRFSD SDC011-162300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 534 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN BROOKINGS COUNTY AT 530 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BROOKINGS COUNTY JUST NORTH OF BRUCE OR ABOUT 10 NORTHWEST OF BROOKINGS. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...SEVEREb THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
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, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SDZ004-005-010-011-012-015-016-017-018-019-020-MNZ017-IAZ001-162145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 339 PM CDT (239 PM MDT) TUE JUN 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING... AT 330 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE MOST ACTIVE WEATHER SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN BETWEEN CHADRON NEBRASKA AND MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA. THERE WERE 3 REPORTED TORNADO SIGHTINGS IN THE MITCHELL AREA AROUND 300 PM. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL FELL IN PLANKINTON. IN THE PAST HALF HOUR, THE MAIN ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING BETWEEN MITCHELL AND WATERTOWN. ALSO...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING THROUGH THE SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE BETWEEN PHILIP AND MISSION. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER CONSCIOUS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY CLOSE TO A RADIO OR TV IN CASE A WARNING IS ISSUED. KRIEHN
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
IAZ001-004-005-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 348 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SIOUXLAND AREA UNTIL 11 PM CDT... NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE AREA AT 346 PM. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA OR WESTERN IOWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CAN BE EXPECTED WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. YOU SHOULD REVIEW SAFET}Y RULES SO YOU WILL KNOW WHAT ACTION TO TAKE IF A TORNADO OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND ADVISORIES. HOPPES
Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
415 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992
COUNTY/STATE TIME EVENT
DAVISON/SD 240 PM MITCHELL PD REPORTS OLD FARM HOUSE
` AND COUNTRY SCHOOL NEAR MITCHELL DESTROYED
BY A TORNADO. ALSO A LARGE AMOUNT OF CROP
DAMAGE REPORTED.
KRIEHNLocal storm report, Jun 16, 4:41 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
440 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992
STORM DATA FOR TUESDAY JUNE 16 1992
TIME COUNTY CHARACTER OF STORM...DAMAGE
.......................................................................
315 PM MDT TRIPP 96 MILE AN HOUR WINDS
IN THE CARTER-WITTEN AREA
WEST OF WINNERSpecial weather statement, Jun 16, 4:42 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
IAZ001-004-005-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 442 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SIOUXLAND AREA UNTIL 11 PM CDT... NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE AREA AT 440 PM. HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA OR WESTERN IOWA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT CAN BE EXPECTED WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. YOU SHOULD REVIEW SAFETIY RULES SO YOU WILL KNOW WHAT ACTION TO TAKE IF A TORNADO OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OCCURS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND ADVISORIES. HOPPES
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:44 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
SDZ012-015>020-MNZ017-IAZ001-162245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 440 PM CDT (340 PM MDT) TUE JUN 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING... AT 440 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO BROOKINGS COUNTY OF SOUTH DAKOTA...ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF BROOKINGS. THIS IS THE SAME STORM THAT PRODUCED TORNADOES NEAR MITCHELL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR HOWARD TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WATERTOWN NEAR BRANDT SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED NORTH AND EAST OF SIOUX FALLS...EXTENDING FROM DELL RAPIDS SOUTH DAKOTA TO NEAR ADRIAN MINNESOTA. PEOPLE IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER CONSCIOUS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY CLOSE TO A RADIO OR TV IN CASE A WARNING IS ISSUED. GEELHART
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, 1:03 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, 5:58 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.