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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 13, 1989Codington County, Hamlin County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1989, 6:18 PM CDT for Codington County, Hamlin County, South Dakota. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 1989, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Codington County, SD, Hamlin 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, Aug 13, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
609 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1989

STORM DATA FOR AUGUST 13 1989

 TIME            COUNTY..LOCATION           CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
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 350 PM CDT     BROWN..RICHMOND LAKE       1/2 INCH HAIL..WEATHER
                                           SPOTTER
 402 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 15NW       GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL..PUBLIC
 410 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN            3/4 INCH HAIL..CIVIL DEF.
 411 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 2W         3/4 INCH HAIL..NWS OBSERVER
 413 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 6W         1 INCH HAIL..NWS OBSERVER
 413 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 6NW        1 1/4 INCH HAIL..POLICE
 417 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 3NW        3/4 INCH HAIL..POLICE
 437 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 3NW        1 INCH HAIL..POLICE
 440 PM CDT     BROWN..ABERDEEN 6W         3/4 INCH HAIL..NWS OBSERVER
 500 PM CDT     BROWN..STRATFORkD           3/4 INCH HAIL..CIVIL DEF.
HUSTON

Local storm report, Aug 13, 6:13 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
612 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1989

STORM DATA FOR AUGUST 13 1989

 TIME            COUNTY..LOCATION           CHARACTER OF STORM..DAMAGE
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 530 PM CDT     ROBERTS..SISSETON 2N       PEA SIZE HAIL..CIVIL DEF.
 530 PM CDT     MARSHALL..VEBLEN 6SE       2-3 INCHES RAIN..MARBLE AND
                                           LARGER HArIL..WEATHER SPOTTER

HUSTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Codington	44 min
Aug 12, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hamlin	43 min
Aug 13, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Sanborn	59 min
Aug 13, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Spink	63 min
Aug 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall, Roberts	57 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

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