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Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

December 23, 20159 counties in South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this winter storm watch at Dec 23, 2015, 3:04 PM CST for 9 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Dec 25, 2015, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 23, 2015, 3:04 PM CST (21:04 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 25, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 24, 2015, 3:47 PM CST
In force
Issued by
NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Sanborn County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 23, 2:35 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 2:35 PM CST, 29 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.