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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 22, 1988Woodbury County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1988, 2:04 AM CDT for Woodbury County, Iowa. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 1988, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 1988, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Woodbury County, IA

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1988-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1988-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Aug 21, 11:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
1140 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1988

AT 1130 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS
SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA.
THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH DAKOTA WERE SOUTH AND EAST
OF A LINE FROM BROOKINGS TO MITCHELL TO YANKTON.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA HAVE VARIED FROM
1 TO 3 INCHES OVER THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS AND HAVE CAUSED SOME STREET
FLOODING IN THE SIOUX FALLS AREA.

ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN...ARE
LIKELY LATER TONIGHT OVER SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKO6TA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.

FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADSIDE DITCHES IS LIKELY LATER TONIGHT...
ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PEA SIZE HAIL.
STOREY
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 11:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX CITY IA
1145 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 1988

 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST
SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA...

AT 1140 PM CDT A 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR BERESFORD SOUTH
DAKOTA IN NORTHWEST UNION COUNTY...ABOUT 44 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIOUX
CITY TO ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF SIOUX CITY NEAR HAWARDEN IOWA TO
CHEROKEE IOWA WHICH IS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WERE PASSING OVER
AREAS THAT ALREADY RECIEVED HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT.

FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADSIDE DITC,HES IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS
AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.

PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 12:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HURON SD
1240 AM CDT MON AUG 22 1988

AT 1230 AM CDT...NUMEROUS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA.

THESE STORMS WERE MOSTLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FLANDREAU TO BONESTEEL
WITH A THE HEAVIEST STORMS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF ALCESTER...25 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SIOUX CITY IOWA...10 MILES SOUTH OF YANKTON...10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF AVON AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGEWATER.  A SLIGHT INCREASE
IN INTENSITY WAS NOTED.

PERSONS IN THE SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE STATE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AS THESE
STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND HAIL.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
PFEIFFER
Local storm report, Aug 22, 12:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1250 AM CDT MON AUG 22 1988

STORM DATA FOR SUNDAY AUG 22 1988

 TIME            COUNTY..LOCATION           CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
.......................................................................

 1130 PM CDT    YANKTON...AT MAYFIELD      GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL PUT DENTS
                                           INTO CARS.
KAPELA
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Turner58 min
Aug 22, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDClay29 min
Aug 22, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion65 min
Aug 21, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDSioux64 min
Aug 22, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth64 min
Aug 22, 2:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMonona62 min
Aug 22, 3:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDIda, Woodbury68 min
Aug 21, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLincoln, Lyon55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1988Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.