Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1994, 4:02 PM MDT for Dewey County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1994, 4:02 PM MDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1994, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dewey County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 4, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SDZ003>005-009-010-015-016-042215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 320 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 315 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHERN CORSON COUNTY BETWEEN MCINTOSH AND MCLAUGHLIN...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOBRIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NIELSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SDZ003>005-009-010-015-016-042215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 320 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 9 PM CDT. AT 315 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHERN CORSON COUNTY BETWEEN MCINTOSH AND MCLAUGHLIN...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOBRIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NIELSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Walworth | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter | 68 min |
| Jun 4, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.