Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 30, 1998Harding County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1998, 1:27 PM MDT for Harding County, South Dakota. It was in force for 63 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
May 30, 1998, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1998, 2:30 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Harding County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 30, 2:15 PM MDTHail 1Redig, SDHail broke several windows.

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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River49 min
May 29, 8:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster46 min
May 29, 9:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster47 min
May 29, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR65 min
May 30, 12:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR46 min
May 30, 1:11 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR49 min
May 30, 1:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett, Todd46 min
May 30, 1:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett33 min
May 30, 2:01 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR34 min
May 30, 2:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett47 min
May 30, 3:04 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd46 min
May 30, 5:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTripp47 min
May 30, 2:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte46 min
May 30, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Harding, Perkins64 min
May 30, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding, Meade, Perkins58 min
May 30, 3:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington34 min
May 30, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon60 min
May 30, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson45 min

Nearby

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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.