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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 16, 1992Murray County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1992, 5:03 PM CDT for Murray County, Minnesota. It was in force for 27 min. 3 reports 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, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Murray County, MN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 5:06 PM CDTTornado F5Murray, MN
Jun 16, 5:18 PM CDTTornado F4Murray, MN
Jun 16, 5:30 PM CDTTornado F2Murray, MN

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

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1992-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1992-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 162203
TORFSD
MNC101-162230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
503 PM CDT TUE JUN 16 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA
 
   ...MURRAY COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 2 MILES WEST OF LEOTA OR
45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SOUTH FALLS. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
INTO MURRAY COUNTY AND WILL THREATEN CHANDLER BEFORE 530 PM.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  IF YOU LIVE
IN A MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT FOR A STRONGER SHELTER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDNobles45 min
Jun 15, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln26 min
Jun 15, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln23 min
Jun 15, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDJackson54 min
Jun 16, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone36 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMurray48 min
Jun 16, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLyon32 min
Jun 16, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon46 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.