Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1994, 2:39 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Iowa. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1994, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1994, 3:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, IA
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 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 KSUX 101939 RRA SVRSUX IAC035-102015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 239 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST IOWA ...EASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY AT 237 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHEROKEE IOWA OR 45 MILES EAST OF SIOUX CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF CHEROKEE AND AURELIA IOWA BETWEEN 245 PM AND 315 PM. RADAR INDICATED LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINS THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. &
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 10, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
IAZ021-032-043-013-020-031-NEZ014-013-015-SDZ071-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 115 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH THE SIOUX CITY AREA... AT 110 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AT THE SIOUX CITY AREA. MOVEWMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT A LINE FROM MOVILLE TO HORNICK IOWA BY 2 PM. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT ALONG WITH 30 MILE AN HOUR WIND GUSTS. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SALIX IOWA AROUND 1 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE SHELDON AND PRIMGHAR AREAS. THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. MICHELS &
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
IAZ021-032-043-013-020-031-NEZ014-013-015-SDZ071-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 115 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH THE SIOUX CITY AREA... AT 110 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AT THE SIOUX CITY AREA. MOVEWMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT A LINE FROM MOVILLE TO HORNICK IOWA BY 2 PM. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT ALONG WITH 30 MILE AN HOUR WIND GUSTS. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SALIX IOWA AROUND 1 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE SHELDON AND PRIMGHAR AREAS. THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. MICHELS &
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
IAZ021-032-043-013-020-031-NEZ014-013-015-SDZ071-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 115 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH THE SIOUX CITY AREA... AT 110 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AT THE SIOUX CITY AREA. MOVEWMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT A LINE FROM MOVILLE TO HORNICK IOWA BY 2 PM. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT ALONG WITH 30 MILE AN HOUR WIND GUSTS. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SALIX IOWA AROUND 1 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE SHELDON AND PRIMGHAR AREAS. THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. MICHELS &
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
IAZ021-032-043-013-020-031-NEZ014-013-015-SDZ071-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 115 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH THE SIOUX CITY AREA... AT 110 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AT THE SIOUX CITY AREA. MOVEWMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT A LINE FROM MOVILLE TO HORNICK IOWA BY 2 PM. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT ALONG WITH 30 MILE AN HOUR WIND GUSTS. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SALIX IOWA AROUND 1 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE SHELDON AND PRIMGHAR AREAS. 2THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. MICHELS &
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:43 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
IAZ021-032-043-013-020-031-NEZ014-013-015-SDZ071-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 143 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA... AT 140 PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM HARTLEY IOWA TO SIOUX CITY IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT PAULINA IOWA AT 140 PM. HOLSTEIN AND CHEROKEE IOWA WILL SEE THESE STORMS BY 230 PM. PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR CHEROKEE...IDA...OBRIEN...PLYMOUTH...AND WOODBURY COUNTIES IN IOWA. MICHELS &
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:43 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
IAZ021-032-043-013-020-031-NEZ014-013-015-SDZ071-101945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA 143 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA... AT 140 PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM HARTLEY IOWA TO SIOUX CITY IOWA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT PAULINA IOWA AT 140 PM. HOLSTEIN AND CHEROKEE IOWA WILL SEE THESE STORMS BY 230 PM. PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR CHEROKEE...IDA...OBRIEN...PLYMOUTH...AND WOODBURY COUNTIES IN IOWA. MICHELS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Monona, Woodbury | 30 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.