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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1110 AM CDT WED MAY 15 2013

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA AFTER
DARK TUESDAY EVENING...SPREADING INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL AROUND
MIDNIGHT...AND INTO THE EAST CENTRAL LATE. MUCH OF THE RAINFALL
ACROSS THE EAST CENTRAL FELL NEAR AND NORTH OF HURON TO BETWEEN
BROOKINGS AND WATERTOWN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT HAVE BEEN
GENERALLY UNDER A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH FAITH MEASURING 0.26
INCHES. OTHER ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE NEBRASKA
BORDER TUESDAY EVENING ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL
DISSIPATED AFTER DARK.

EARLY MORNING LOW TEMPERATURES WERE MAINLY IN THE UPPER 40S AND
LOWER 50S...ALTHOUGH THE AREA NEAR AND WEST OF MITCHELL HAD LOWS IN
THE MID 50S. ABERDEEN WAS THE COOLEST ON THE PRAIRIES AT 40 DEGREES.
THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS WERE COOLER STILL WITH
PACTOLA DAM AT 37 DEGREES...HILL CITY 36 DEGREES...LEAD 35 DEGREES...
DEERFIELD 34 DEGREES AND NEMO 33 DEGREES.

AT 11 AM CDT SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY OVER THE NORTH AND FAR
SOUTHEAST WITH LIGHT RAIN LINGERING NORTH OF BROOKINGS. THE REST OF
THE STATE WAS SUNNY. TEMPERATURES WERE MAINLY IN THE UPPER 60S AND
LOWER 70S WITH EXTREMES OF 57 DEGREES AT BROOKINGS TO 74 DEGREES AT
SISSETON.

ON THIS DATE IN 1931 THE MERCURY HIT 100 DEGREES AT MITCHELL...
101 DEGREES AT FORESTBURG AND 103 DEGREES AT ABERDEEN.

ON THIS DATE IN 1921 CAMP CROOK COOLED TO A FROSTY 18 DEGREES.

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SHEEHAN