Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Aberdeen, SD

June 26, 1998Brown County, South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 3:59 PM CDT for Brown County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. 9 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
Jun 26, 1998, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1998, 4:50 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 26, 4:00 PM CDTTornado F0Groton, SDA tornado touched down briefly southeast of Groton with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated.
Jun 26, 4:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61Frederick, SDWinds gusting to around 70 mph brought some trees down in Frederick.
Jun 26, 4:25 PM CDTHail 0.88Columbia, SD
Jun 26, 4:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Columbia, SDWinds gusting to 60 mph brought some trees and tree branches down in Columbia.
Jun 26, 4:45 PM CDTHail 0.88Aberdeen, SD
Jun 26, 4:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Aberdeen, SDWinds gusting to 60 mph partially removed the roof off a business in Aberdeen.
Jun 26, 4:55 PM CDTHail 1.75Bath, SD
Jun 26, 5:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61Tacoma Park, SDWinds gusting to 70 mph brought many large tree branches down south of Tacoma Park.
Jun 26, 5:00 PM CDTHail 2.5Tacoma Park, 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
Jun 26, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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
Jun 26, 11:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell50 min
Jun 26, 12:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Walworth61 min
Jun 26, 12:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell49 min
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCampbell, McPherson63 min
Jun 26, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds, McPherson36 min
Jun 26, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds, McPherson35 min
Jun 26, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown30 min
Jun 26, 3:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRCorson6 hr
Jun 26, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown48 min
Jun 26, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown47 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk, Hyde, Potter62 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRSully62 min
Jun 26, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningABRCampbell6 hr
Jun 26, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown49 min
Jun 26, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown47 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay48 min
Jun 26, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand48 min
Jun 26, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand53 min
Jun 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall50 min
Jun 26, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDay62 min
Jun 26, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Marshall64 min
Jun 26, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRRoberts63 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.