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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 21, 1989Sioux County, Iowa

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1989, 12:20 AM CDT for Sioux County, Iowa. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1989, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1989, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Sioux County, IA

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, Jun 20, 7:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
740 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 1989

    ...THUNDERSTORMS BOIL UP IN SOUTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...

AT 740 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE QUICKLY DEVELOPING
OVER SOUTHCENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA
FROM AROUND BONESTEEL TO STICKNEY...OR ABOUT 60 TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST
AT ABOUT 30 MPH ALONG A COLD FRONT. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA FROM AROUND
BONESTEEL TO MITCHELL SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE STORMS THIS
EVENING THROUGH AT LEAST 10 PM CDT.

BOATERS ON LAKE FRA;NCIS CASE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR SINCE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.
KAPELA
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 20, 10:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:03 AM CDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Gregory30 min
Jun 20, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix, Douglas33 min
Jun 20, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Davison52 min
Jun 20, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHanson, Hutchinson30 min
Jun 20, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDHutchinson, McCook, Turner51 min
Jun 20, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDTurner37 min
Jun 20, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha49 min
Jun 20, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDMinnehaha, Moody43 min
Jun 20, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDCharles Mix31 min
Jun 21, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDAurora, Brule38 min
Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDLyon52 min
Jun 20, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDPipestone52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

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