Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1994, 7:50 PM CDT for Hand County, Hyde County, South Dakota. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1994, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1994, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 2609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KHON 050050
TORHON
SDC069-059-050115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
750 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
NORTHEAST HYDE...NORTHERN HAND
AT 745 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
POLO. STORM WAS STATIONARY.
STORM IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT EAST AFFECTING POLO UNTIL AT LEAST 820
PM CDT.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT
SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES IN FAVOR OF A
REINFORCED BUILDING.
PURDY/SPRINGERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 3:20 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 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, 3:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 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, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hand | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hand | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Beadle, Hand | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Beadle | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sanborn | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 11:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Codington, Hamlin | 6 hr |
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.