Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Aberdeen, SD
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Aberdeen, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 3:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 9:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 10:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.