Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1994, 3:43 PM CDT for Faulk County, Spink County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1994, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Faulk County, SD, Spink County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABR 062044 TORABR SDC049-115-062115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 343 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES....S... IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...NORTHEASTERN FAULK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...NORTHWESTERN SPINK COUNTY THE FAULK COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF CRESBARD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. 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. NIELSEN
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 6, 2:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 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, 1 hour 18 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, 1 hour 16 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, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds | 26 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.