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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

June 24, 1998Hutchinson County, South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 8:20 PM CDT for Hutchinson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 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 24, 1998, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1998, 8:55 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD
Area: Whole counties

County Hutchinson County, SD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 8:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Tripp, 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 6538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

824 
WUUS1 KFSD 250121 RRA
SVRFSD
SDC067-250155-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
820 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HUTCHINSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 855 PM CDT

* AT 818 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WIND 27 MILES EAST OF LAKE
  ANDES OR 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MILLTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PARKSTON                 AROUND 830 PM CDT
  MILLTOWN                 AROUND 835 PM CDT
  DEMMICK                  AROUND 840 PM CDT
  TSCHETTER COLONY         AROUND 840 PM CDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES...SO
GO TO YOUR DESIGNATED SHELTER.
 HAMEN

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 Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 10:45 AM CDT, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 10:45 AM CDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR SOUTHEAST SD/SOUTHWEST MN/NORTHWEST IA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1045 AM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

15Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES LOW PRESSURE CENTERED IN SWRN NEBRASKA WITH
WARM FRONT EXTENDING INTO NRN IOWA.  AREAS TO THE NORTH OF THE FRONT
SHOULD BE MAIN FOCUS FOR TSRA ACTIVITY.  AN ISOLATED STORM MAY DEVELOP
DURING THE AFTERNOON...HOWEVER MAIN SHOW SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL LATE
AFTERNOON OR EVENING WHEN DYNAMIC SUPPORT MOVES IN.  NO SIGNIFICANT
UPDATES PLANNED AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT WINDS
IN THE WEST.

.FSD...NONE
 HAMEN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA
315 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0940 PM    STORM LAKE                IA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/98   BUENA VISTA

Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA
331 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0910 PM    3 SE ANTHON               IA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/23/98   WOODBURY                       TREE DAMAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	48 min
Jun 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	35 min
Jun 24, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Jerauld	34 min
Jun 24, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	33 min
Jun 24, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook	33 min
Jun 24, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Sanborn	31 min
Jun 24, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle	34 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Kingsbury	45 min
Jun 24, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	35 min
Jun 24, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Moody	32 min
Jun 24, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	31 min
Jun 24, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln	35 min
Jun 24, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.