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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

February 1, 20168 counties in South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 1, 2016, 3:30 PM CST for 8 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Feb 2, 2016, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 1, 2016, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 2, 2016, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 3, 2016, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Brookings County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Lake County, SD, Miner County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 weather advisory 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 weather advisory went out at Jan 31, 5:42 PM CST, 21 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 5:42 PM CST, 21 hours 48 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 1, 3:38 AM CST	Blizzard Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha and 4 more	48 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in South Dakota, 2016 Every winter weather advisory in 2016

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.