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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

August 22, 1989Lyon County, Iowa; Nobles County, Rock County, Minnesota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1989, 6:54 PM CDT for Lyon County, Iowa; Nobles County, Rock County, Minnesota. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 22, 1989, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lyon County, IA, Nobles County, MN, Rock County, MN

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 22, 1:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 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 21, 10:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brookings	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 1989 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 1989 Every 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.