Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 3, 1997Hughes County, Sully County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1997, 7:09 PM CDT for Hughes County, Sully County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1997, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1997, 7:40 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hughes County, SD, Sully County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

NWS Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 3, 10:46 AM CDT, 8 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 10:46 AM CDT, 8 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD
AND FOR TRAVERSE/BIG STONE COUNTIES OF MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1040 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 1997

HAVE UPDATED ENTIRE PACKAGE...MOSTLY TO MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO
TEMPERATURES AND TO FRESHEN WORDING. HAVE INTORDUCED 20 PCT POPS IN
BIG STONE/TRAVERSE COUNTIES. WEAK FRONT IN ND SHUD DRIFT SOUTH
DURING THE AFTERNOON...AND THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF INSTABILITY
AROUND. MODIFIED SOUNDING FOR ABR GIVES LI OF -7 AND CAPE AROUND
2500 J/KG.

.ABR...NONE

MIDDLEBROOKE

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

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