Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 15, 1998Dewey County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1998, 5:57 PM MDT for Dewey County, South Dakota. It was in force for 63 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
Aug 15, 1998, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1998, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Dewey County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
Aug 15, 6:20 PM MDTHail 1.75Isabel, SD
Aug 15, 6:40 PM MDTHail 2.75Isabel, 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.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.