Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1993, 4:25 PM CDT for Kingsbury County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1993, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1993, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kingsbury County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KHON 072125
TORHON
SDC077-072200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
425 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
EASTERN KINGSBURY
SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE ARLINGTON AND
DESMET.
420 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE TORNADOES OVER NORTHERN LAKE
COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE TORNADOES AND
FUNNEL CLOUDS SHOULD BE IN THE ARLINGTON - DESMET AREAS BY 440 PM
CDT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT
SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES IN FAVOR OF A
REINFORCED BUILDING.
STOREYWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 7, 2:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SDZ003-004-072145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 248 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 245 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PARTS OF POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES OF NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEBANON...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY. NIELSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SDZ003-004-072145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 248 PM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 245 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PARTS OF POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES OF NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF LEBANON...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN POTTER AND FAULK COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF NECESSARY. NIELSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Lyman | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hyde, Lyman | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Beadle | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 28 min |
| Jun 7, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Beadle | 37 min |
| Jun 7, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Spink | 26 min |
| Jun 7, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 58 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1993Every tornado warning in 1993Tornadoes in 1993
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.