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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 21, 1988Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 1988, 8:17 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Turner County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 21, 1988, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 1988, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, SD, Turner 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

Local storm report, Aug 21, 7:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 7:46 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 7:51 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	29 min
Aug 22, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Union	65 min
Aug 21, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sioux	64 min
Aug 22, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth	64 min
Aug 22, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Woodbury	56 min
Aug 22, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Monona	62 min
Aug 22, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Ida, Woodbury	68 min
Aug 21, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Lyon	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.