Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

July 23, 1988Tripp County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1988, 7:10 PM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1988, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1988, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Tripp County, SD

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 23, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
545 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 1988

AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED STRENGTHENING OVER EAST CENTRAL
AND NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA. NUMEROUS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED
IN A NEARLY SOLID 25 MILE WIDE LINE FROM THE NORTH DAKOTA LINE AT THE JAMES
RIVER TO 40 MILES EAST OF PIERRE.

HAIL AND STRONG WIND AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY IN THE AREA FROM
PIERRE qAND MOBRIDGE TO CHAMBERLAIN AND SISSETON.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SPRINGER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule, Charles Mix, Gregory65 min
Jul 23, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule36 min
Jul 23, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas60 min
Jul 23, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDBrule, Gregory60 min
Jul 24, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDIda, Woodbury65 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.