Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Aberdeen, SD

September 12, 1997Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1997, 7:16 AM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 1997, 7:16 AM CDT (12:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 1997, 7:50 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 12, 7:18 AM CDTHail 0.75Hecla, SD
Sep 12, 7:30 AM CDTHail 0.75Hecla, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 7:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown33 min
Sep 12, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1997Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.