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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 4, 1994Hand County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1994, 8:05 PM CDT for Hand County, South Dakota. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1994, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hand County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHON 050105
TORHON
SDC059-050130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 
805 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
      CENTRAL AND NORTHERN HAND

AT 758 PM CDT  A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 4 MILES NORTH
OF REE HEIGHTS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

 AT ITS LATES MOVEMENT...THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE
AREA OF MILLER AND ST. LAWRENCE BETWEEN 815 PM CDT AND 820 PM CDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

 SPRINGER

What 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 45 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 41 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, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	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.