Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Aberdeen, SD

July 20, 1998Marshall County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1998, 5:34 PM CDT for Marshall 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
Jul 20, 1998, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1998, 6:05 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Marshall County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1998-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2746 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 1998-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2746 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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 Jul 20, 10:07 AM CDT, 7 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 10:07 AM CDT, 7 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD
AND FOR TRAVERSE/BIG STONE COUNTIES OF MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1007 AM CDT MON JUL 20 1998

STRONG TSRAS ACROSS FAR SE CLARK...HAMLIN AND DEUEL COUNTIES WILL BE
MOVING EAST OUT OF THE STATE BY NOON. OTHERWISE...A LOT OF HEAT AND
HUMIDITY FOR THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY FROM C INTO NE SD. TEMPS RISING INTO
THE 90S TO AROUND 100 AND DWPTS IN THE 70S. RHS WILL BE IN THE 45 TO 55
PERCENT RANGE WHICH SHOULD BRING HEAT INDICES AROUND 105 OR HIGHER. WILL
ISSUE A HEAT ADVISORY FOR C THROUGH NE SD FOR THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT
INDICES IN NC SD SHOULD BE LOWER WITH MOISTURE DECREASING AS WINDS
BECOME NW. BESIDES THE HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS...THE 12Z RUC SHOWS A
SFC LOW MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA WITH A TRAILING COLD FRONT MOVING
EAST ACROSS THE ABR CWA. CAPS ARE WEAK AND CAPES ARE HIGH...ESPECIALLY
FOR NE SD AND WC MN. SO CHANCE OF SEVERE TSRAS THIS AREA. LIKE SPCS
SLIGHT RISK AREA. WILL UPDATE ALL ZONES.

.ABR...HEAT ADVISORY...C THROUGH NE SD...THIS AFTERNOON.

MOHR

.ABR...NONE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 11:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 3:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde60 min
Jul 20, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHamlin63 min
Jul 20, 10:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRHamlin3 hr
Jul 20, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMarshall49 min
Jul 20, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

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