Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1992, 11:13 PM CDT for Murray County, Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1992, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1992, 11:38 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Murray County, MN, Rock County, MN
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFSD 020414 SVRFSD MNC101-105-133-020500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 1113 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIESS... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...SOUTHWESTERN MURRAY COUNTY...NOBLES COUNTY ...WESTERN ROCK COUNTY SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE MAGNOLIA...ADRIAN... WORTHINGTON AND FULDA. AT 1110 PM CDT RADAR INDCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES EAST OF SIOUX FALLS JUST EAST OF HILLS MINNESOTA MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX FALLS WEST OF WILMONT MINNESOTA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 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 DRIVpE 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, Jul 1, 5:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
MNZ017-012330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 540 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1992 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA... AT 535 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF SIOUX FALLS NEAR HILLS MINNESOTA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF MAGNOLIA...KANARANZI...AND ADRIAN MINNESOTA CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN AND AREAS OF HALF INCH HAIL BEFORE 630 PM CDT AS THE THUNDERSTORM MOVES NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTY INTO WESTERN NOBLES COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. UMLAND
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 10:44 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
IAZ020-021-031-032-043-NEZ096-020445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 1043 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MONONA AND THURSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4 AM THURSDAY MORNING... AT 1040 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED MILES NORTH OF NORTH SIOUX CITY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO MERRILL AND HINTON IOWA BY 1115 PM. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF BLENCOE IOWA...50 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE INTO MOORHEAD IOWA BY 1115 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTEgR IMMEDIATELY. IRELAND
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 10:46 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
IAZ020-021-031-032-043-NEZ096-020445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 1043 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MONONA AND THURSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 4 AM THURSDAY MORNING... AT 1040 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF NORTH SIOUX CITY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO MERRILL AND HINTON IOWA BY 1115 PM. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF BLENCOE IOWA...50 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE INTO MOORHEAD IOWA BY 1115 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELT:ER IMMEDIATELY. IRELAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles, Rock | 41 min |
| Jul 1, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Nobles | 47 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.