Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Aberdeen, SD
NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 1996, 8:14 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 1, 1996, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Aberdeen, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 888 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABR 020113 TORABR SDC013-020200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 814 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABERDEEN SD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA ...NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY THE COMMUNITIES MOST THREATENED BY THIS TORNADO... BARNARD AROUND 825 PM CDT FREDERICK AROUND 838 PM CDT AT 811 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY ABERDEEN DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ABERDEEN OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BARNARD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 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 WINDOWSV. HG/DM
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, Sep 1, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
SDZ005>008-010-011-017>022-035>037-048-051-020400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD 505 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND ALL OF NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11 PM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11PM CDT. THE WATCH BASICALLY STRETCHES FROM ABOUT CHAMBERLAIN NORTHEAST TO ABERDEEN AND SISSETON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IF A WARNING IS ISSUED PLEASE TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TDK
Local storm report, Sep 1, 6:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
648 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 PM FREDERICK SD 0.75 INCH HAIL
09/01/96 BROWN
TDKLocal storm report, Sep 1, 6:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
652 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 PM 1 W FREDERICK SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/01/96 BROWN
TDKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.