Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 6:34 PM MDT for Stanley County, South Dakota. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1994, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1994, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanley County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 7, 2:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...AREA CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 320 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS STARTING TO RUMBLE OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL...
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...AREA CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 320 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS STARTING TO RUMBLE OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL REGION NEAR EAGLE BUTTE AND GREEN GRASS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AND SHOULD BE IN THE TRAIL CITY...MOBRIDGE AND MCLAUGHLIN AREA BY 3 PM MDT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHCENTRAL REGION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER WITH THESE AND OTHER ADDITIONAL STORMS. STUDNICKA
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 517 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOBRODGE NEAR ARTAS TO NEAR ISABEL...25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUPREE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHCENTRAL REGION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF WEATHER THREATENS. GILLESPIE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 517 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOBRODGE NEAR ARTAS TO NEAR ISABEL...25 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUPREE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHCENTRAL REGION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PEOPLE IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF WEATHER THREATENS. GILLESPIE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:15 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 715 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 715 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST DEWEY COUNTY...25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUPREE. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN DEWEY COUNTY AND THOSE PEOPLE FISHING OR BOATING ON LAKE OAHE ADJACENT TO SOUTHERN DEWEY COUNTY NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS STRONG STORM. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF WEATHER THREATENS. GILLESPIE
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:15 PM MDT, 19 minutes before
SDZ003>011-015>018-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 715 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... AT 715 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST DEWEY COUNTY...25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUPREE. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN DEWEY COUNTY AND THOSE PEOPLE FISHING OR BOATING ON LAKE OAHE ADJACENT TO SOUTHERN DEWEY COUNTY NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS STRONG STORM. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF WEATHER THREATENS. GILLESPIE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Stanley | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Lyman | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.