Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1994, 5:06 PM CDT for Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1994, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1994, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamlin County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 1741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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 12, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SDZ003->011-015>018-122300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 400 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT... DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG SURFACE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH SOME LARGE HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA FROM EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER TO THE MINNESOTA STATE LINE. AT PRESENT...ONLY SPINK COUNTY IS WITHIN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN POP UP RAPIDLY IN AND NEAR A WATCH AREA, SO PERSONS ACROSS NORTHEAST AND NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ARE REMINDED TO STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS THEY BECOME AVAILIABLE OVER T.V. AND RADIO ALONG WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO. STUDNICKA
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SDZ003->011-015>018-122300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 400 PM CDT SUN JUN 12 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT... DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG SURFACE WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH SOME LARGE HAIL. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA FROM EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER TO THE MINNESOTA STATE LINE. AT PRESENT...ONLY SPINK COUNTY IS WITHIN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN POP UP RAPIDLY IN AND NEAR A WATCH AREA, SO PERSONS ACROSS NORTHEAST AND NORTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ARE REMINDED TO STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AS THEY BECOME AVAILIABLE OVER T.V. AND RADIO ALONG WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO. STUDNICKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Beadle, Hand | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Beadle, Sanborn | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Miner | 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.