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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 6, 1994Aurora County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 2:11 PM CDT for Aurora County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1994, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Aurora County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1994-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 563 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1994-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFSD 061911
SVRFSD
SDC003-061945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
211 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF SOUTH DAKOTA
      EASTERN AURORA

AT 205 PM CDT  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 2 NORTH OF
PLANKINTON SOUTH DAKOTA OR 25 MILES WEST OF MITCHELL. THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH..HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER..DEADLY LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN
THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD A LOW LYING AREA.

BEHREND

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 6, 2:01 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SDZ056-062-MNZ097-098-061945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
200 PM CDT MON JUN 6 1994

...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA THIS AFTERNOON.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM CENTRAL MOODY COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA...NEAR
FLANDREAU...SOUTHEAST INTO ROCK COUNTY MINNESOTA NEAR HARDWICK.

LOCAL HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY
MOVE TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.  PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE COVER AND MOVE TO A SAFE REINFORCED SHELTER IF
NECESSARY.  STAY OUT OF LOW LYING AREAS AS HEAVY RAIN MAY PRODUCE
LOCAL AREAS OF FLOODING.
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ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
IN THE MEANTIME...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
OVER MUCH OF SOUTH DAKOTA INTO THE EVENING SO PERSON SHOULD STAYED
TUNED FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

HARMON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrookings50 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.