Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1993, 3:52 AM CDT for Osceola County, Iowa. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1993, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1993, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osceola County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KFSD 070854 RRA SVRFSD IAC143-070930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 352 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST IOWA ...CENTRAL AND EASTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING ARE OCHEYEDAN. AT 350 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF SIBLEY IN NORTHWEST IOWA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA. 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. RYRHOLM
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 7, 2:56 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
SDZ018-070900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 257 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 255 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR CANTON... ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX FALLS. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO REPORTED AT YANKTON AND WAKONDA EARLIER THIS MORNING. STORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THE REST OF TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH TODAY. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. MENTZER0
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:27 AM CDT, 25 minutes before
IAZ013-020-SDZ066-070930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 327 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD SHELDON... AT 325 AM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD SHELDON IOWA WHICH IS 55 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE IN SHELDON BY 4 AM. HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BERESFORD IN UNION COUNTY. THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO ALCESTER BY 4 AM AND HINTON IOWA BY 430 AM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR UNION COUNTY UNTIL 7 AM THIS MORNING. IRELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:32 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
IAZ013-020-SDZ066-070930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 327 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD SHELDON... AT 325 AM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD SHELDON IOWA WHICH IS 55 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE IN SHELDON BY 4 AM. HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BERESFORD IN UNION COUNTY. THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO ALCESTER BY 4 AM AND HINTON IOWA BY 430 AM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR UNION COUNTY UNTIL 7 AM THIS MORNING. IRELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:38 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
SDZ012-015>020-071000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 340 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP... CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE TRI/STATE AREA AROUND SIOUX FALLS AT 335 AM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MPH. EARLIER AROUND 230 AM CDT TWO INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS REPORTED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BERESFORD ALONG WITH 3 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN. ALSO AROUND 2 INCHES OF RAIN OCCURRED IN THE CANTON AREA. THESE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING PROBLEMS. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE STORM DEVELOPMENT THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH TODAY. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. RYRHOLM P
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:40 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
SDZ010-011-015-016-017-018-019-020-070940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 340 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 700 AM CDT... AT 330 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL...CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS WERE MOSTLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM RIDGEVIEW/30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOBRIDGE TO REVILLO/25 MILES EAST OF WATERTOWN WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF VIVIAN/20 MILES SOUTH OF PIERRE... 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIGHMORE/35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON/30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF SIGHTED. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PFEIFFER [@G$^6WWUS #u6WWUS8 6WWUS0 7q4WSUSF> 0XWSUSZZ F>&$WWUS X}66WWUSL p #u6WWUS 6WWUS%6WWUS `D8WUUS `WWUSh XR"WEPA6WWUSH 3U^WSUSl T }66WWUS p%6WWUS `D8WUUS XWOUS6WWUSB 4 h>TWEPA ^gtztzVQ6WWUS: HQ}WWUSf Q6WWUSOF6WWUS\ X 4Z\q6WWUSR NING. HIGH 7 TO R"WEPA tc<6WWUS$ jIWUUSp p KM/H. TUESDKoWEPA\ |E. HIGH NEAR 8. XWOUS VQ6WWUS: Hh>TWEPA FPCN11 CWUL qI`WWUS, sHWWUS& bZ`WWUS4 ,S6WWUS> Q6WWUS
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:44 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
SDZ010-011-015-016-017-018-019-020-070940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 340 AM CDT MON JUN 7 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 700 AM CDT... AT 330 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL...CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS WERE MOSTLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM RIDGEVIEW/30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOBRIDGE TO REVILLO/25 MILES EAST OF WATERTOWN WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF VIVIAN/20 MILES SOUTH OF PIERRE... 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HIGHMORE/35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON/30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX FALLS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF SIGHTED. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PFEIFFER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 19 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 26 min |
| Jun 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | O'Brien | 21 min |
| Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 21 min |
| Jun 7, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Osceola | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.