Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1994, 7:17 PM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1994, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1994, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tripp County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KFSD 090018 RRA SVRFSD SDC123-090100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 717 PM CDT WED JUN 8 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN TRIPP COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINNER IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT OVER 50 MPH AND WILL TRACK ACROSS THE COMMUNITIES OF IDEAL AND HAMILL AND POSSIBLE DEVELOP SOUTH INTO THE WINNER AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...YOU SHOULD GET TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES 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. UMLAND
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
Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:17 PM CDT, 3 hours before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
417 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1994
TIME EVENT LOCATION-CITY AND COUNTY
155 PM CDT 1 INCH HAIL HORNICK IOWA...WOODBURY
COUNTY.
MICHELSSpecial weather statement, Jun 8, 4:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
SDZ001-012-024>030-041-082350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 447 PM CDT (347 PM MDT) WED JUN 8 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF EXTREME WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AS OF 430 PM CDT. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR AREAS WEST OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES NORTHEAST OF REDIG TO RAPID CITY AND SOUTH TO OELRICHS. THE COMMUNITIES OF RAPID CITY..BUFFALO...STURGIS...HOT SPRINGS... OELRICHS AND THE BLACK HILLS ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SDZ033-082250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 450 PM CDT TUE JUN 07 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN STANLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. AT 345 PM MDT...THE STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYES OR 50 MILES WEST OF PIERRE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND...AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. ANYONE IN WEST CENTRAL OR NORTHWEST STANLEY COUNTY SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER. KEEP TUNED TO RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THIS STORM. SPRINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SDZ033-045-082350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD 550 PM CDT TUE JUN 07 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO JONES COUNTY BY 5 PM MDT. AT 450 PM MDT...THE STORM WAS 15 MILES WIDE FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURDO MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDb...AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. ANYONE IN JONES COUNTY SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER. KEEP TUNED TO RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS STORM. THE STORM IN WESTERN STANLEY COUNTY HAD WEAKENED. SPRINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:11 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SDZ001>003-012>014-024>031-041>044-090215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 711 PM CDT (611 PM MDT) WED JUN 8 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANC.ELLED... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 356 WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THUS ENDING THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER.
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.