Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 24, 1998Hughes County, Hyde County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1998, 5:55 AM CDT for Hughes County, Hyde County, South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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 24, 1998, 5:55 AM CDT (10:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1998, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 24, 6:25 AM CDTHail 0.75Highmore, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 24, 2:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 00:00Z on 1998-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Aug 24, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey32 min
Aug 24, 2:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson58 min
Aug 24, 2:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey, Potter, Walworth49 min
Aug 24, 4:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRClark, Spink62 min
Aug 24, 5:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRPotter, Sully61 min
Aug 24, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.