Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
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.
- 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
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.
KAPELASpecial weather statement, Aug 22, 1:44 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 58 min |
| 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, 2:28 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 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.