Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 2:56 PM CDT for Codington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Codington County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 6, 2:24 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-062015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 225 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 220 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN SPINK COUNTY OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STORM WAS NEAR TULARE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF HURON. THUNDERSTORMS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHERN FAULK AND EASTERN DAY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING PWEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR AREA. NIELSEN WINDOWS. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES OR TELEPHONES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. BUCKLEW
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:25 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-062015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 225 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 220 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN SPINK COUNTY OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STORM WAS NEAR TULARE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF HURON. THUNDERSTORMS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHERN FAULK AND EASTERN DAY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH. REPORTS OF PEA SIZED HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE RECEIVED FROM THE TULARE AREA OF SOUTHWEST SPINK COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR AREA. NIELSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:27 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-062015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 225 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 220 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED IN SOUTHERN SPINK COUNTY OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. THE STORM WAS NEAR TULARE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF HURON. THUNDERSTORMS HAD ALSO DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHERN FAULK AND EASTERN DAY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH. REPORTS OF PEA SIZED HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE RECEIVED FROM THE TULARE AREA OF SOUTHWEST SPINK COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO COTNTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER MOVES INTO YOUR AREA. NIELSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 27 min |
| Jun 6, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk, Spink | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds | 26 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.