Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1992, 4:42 AM CDT for Jackson County, Minnesota. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 1992, 4:42 AM CDT (09:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1992, 4:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 16 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, 9.7 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 140942 SVRFSD MNC063-141010- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 442 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 510 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ...EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 440 AM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL ABOUT 1 MILE EAST OF JACKSON MINNESOTA...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF WORTHINGTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVE OVER THE COMMUNITY OF ALPHA SHORTLY. THE STORM WILL EXIT JACKSON COUNTY BY 510 AM CDT. 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. MENTZER
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, Sep 14, 1:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SDZ017-019-020>-140730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 110 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 1 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS BON HOMME AND WESTERN YANKTON COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LESTERVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF YANKTON. STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. FREQUENT...AND DANGEROUS...LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO OCCUR. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 2:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
IAZ013-020-021-031-032-043-NEZ094>096-SDZ066-131730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 205 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SIOUXLAND AREA... AT 2 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF BERESFORD SOUTH DAKOTA...65 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY TO YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA...60 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX CITY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HALL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL ENTER THE TOWNS OF BERESFORD AND VERMILLION SOUTH DAKOTA AROUND 3 AM CDT. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES $NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OR THE TELEPHONE DURGING A THUNDERSTORM. TANNER
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 2:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SDZ017-018-020>-140830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 233 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 215 AM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVED ACROSS THE COMMUNITY OF WAKONDA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF YANKTON. THIS STORM PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO REPORTED. AT 230 AM CDT RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. FREQUENT...AND DANGEROUS...LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO OCCUR. lIF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 3:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
IAZ013-020-021-031-032-043-NEZ094>096-SDZ066-131730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 3 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE SIOUXLAND AREA... AT 250 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROCK VALLEY IOWA...50 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX CITY TO 25 MILES NORTH OF NORFOLK NEBRASKA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL ENTER THE TOWNS OF SIOUX CENTER IOWA AND JEFFERSON SOUTH DAKOTA BY 4 AM CDT. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT USE rELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT OR THE TELEPHONE DURGING A THUNDERSTORM. TANNER
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 3:19 AM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
MNZ017-140900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 319 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 AT 315 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE STORM WAS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN NOBLES COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ELLSWORTH...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WORTHINGTON. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONG STORM WILL MOVE OVER WORTHINGTON ABOUT 345 AM CDT. PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA SHOULD BE INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING AT THIS TIME. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING IS VERY DANGEROUS. MENTZER
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 4:37 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
MNZ017-141030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 438 AM CDT MON SEP 14 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AT 435 AM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS NOBLES AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA. AT 410 AM CDT A STORM PRODUCED STRONG WINDS AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL WHICH COMPLETELY COVERED THE GROUND AT ROUND LAKE MINNESOTA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WORTHINGTON. AT 430 AM CDT...PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL FELL IN JACKSON MINNESOTA...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF WORTHINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES NEAR YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MENTZER
Nearby
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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.