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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Aberdeen, SD

August 26, 1998Campbell County, Walworth County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1998, 10:07 PM CDT for Campbell County, Walworth County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 26, 1998, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 1998, 11:05 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Campbell County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 26, 9:30 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 9:30 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 26, 8:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Walworth	62 min
Aug 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	45 min
Aug 26, 8:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Corson	3 hr
Aug 26, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Jones	61 min
Aug 27, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Stanley	61 min
Aug 27, 2:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABR	Walworth	93 min
Aug 27, 2:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes	64 min
Aug 27, 2:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Stanley	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.