Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1996, 8:56 PM CDT for Hughes County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1996, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hughes County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABR 040156 TORABR SDC065-040230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 856 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN SD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ...HUGHES COUNTY THE COMMUNITIES MOST THREATENED BY THIS TORNADO... PIERRE AROUND 903 PM CDT AT 854 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 5 MILES SOUTH OF PIERRE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT\ IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS... PILLOWS OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. STUDNICKA
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, Aug 3, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SDZ003-004-009-015-016-033>037-045-048-051-040800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 740 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY MISSOURI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 2 AM CDT (1AM CDT). THIS WATCH GENERALLY COVERS AN AREA EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM MOBRIDGE SOUTH TO CHAMBERLAIN. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TOv THE WATCH AREA. EVEN ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. IF YOUR IN THE WATCH AREA PLEASE STAY CLOSE TO A TV OR RADIO IN CASE WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. TDK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Walworth | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk, Hand | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall | 61 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.