Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 16, 1998Corson County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 5:45 PM MDT for Corson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 60 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
Jun 16, 1998, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1998, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Corson County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 6:25 PM MDTHail 0.75Bullhead, 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.

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 Jun 16, 9:30 AM MDT, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 9:30 AM MDT, 8 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR CENTRAL/NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST SD
AND FOR TRAVERSE/BIG STONE COUNTIES OF MN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1030 AM CDT TUE JUN 16 1998

FOR NOW WILL NOT UPDATE SD FORECAST. MORNING SOUNDING AT ABR QUITE
DRY BUT MID LEVEL MOIST ADVECTING IN WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT.
CONVECTIVE TEMPS QUITE LOW AND PLENTY OF CU FORMING SO PTLY SUNNY
LOOKS FINE. WILL LEAVE IN SLIGHT CHC OF CONVECTION FOR AFTERNOON
ALTHO ON SECOND THOUGHT WILL PROBABLY ADJUST POPS DOWN A BIT IN WC
MN WHERE THEY SEEM A LITTLE HIGH FOR AFTN. ITS DEJA VU WITH THE NEW
NGM SHOWING ITS TYPICAL MODEL BIASES AND WILL AWAIT FOR ETA AND AVN
BEFORE GETTING TOO EXCITED ABOUT WED AND THU WX.

.ABR...NONE.
TDK

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.