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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
859 PM CDT SUN MAY 19 2013

THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF SOUTH DAKOTA WERE PARTLY TO MOSTLY
SUNNY THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE THE SOUTHEAST...SOUTH CENTRAL...AND
CENTRAL SECTIONS WERE PARTLY SUNNY TO CLOUDY...WITH SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOW PRESSURE CONTINUED TO MEANDER AROUND
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...KEEPING THE REGION
STORMY...BUT RAINFALL AMOUNTS WERE NOT ALL THAT MUCH. MOST OF THE
SEVERE WEATHER REMAINED SOUTH OR EAST OF SOUTH DAKOTA...IN
NEBRASKA...THE SOUTHEAST HALF OF IOWA...AND SOUTH OF SOUTHERN
MINNESOTA.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE PAST 24 HOURS HAVE BEEN
QUITE VARIABLE...FROM A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH...ALL TO WAY UP TO
MORE THAN AN INCH AND A HALF. MOST AMOUNTS WERE BETWEEN ONE QUARTER
AND THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH...WITH THE MAJORITY OF IT FALLING
SATURDAY NIGHT AND THIS MORNING. SOME SELECTED REPORTS INCLUDED:

    MOBRIDGE        2.06
    TIMBER LAKE     1.93
    BOWDLE          1.86
    LEMMON          1.77
    POLLOCK         1.75
    INTERIOR        1.67
    PHILIP          1.30
    PIERRE          1.16
    HOT SPRINGS     1.03
    ABERDEEN        0.96
    WINNER          0.94
    LEAD            0.86
    PINE RIDGE      0.79
    ARDMORE         0.68
    BUFFALO         0.67
    MITCHELL        0.67
    FORT MEADE      0.65
    RAPID CITY ARPT 0.59
    DUPREE          0.55
    RAPID CITY WFO  0.55
    CUSTER          0.51
    SISSETON        0.47
    WATERTOWN       0.47
    MENNO           0.36
    CHAMBERLAIN     0.35
    SIOUX FALLS     0.35
    YANKTON         0.35
    HURON           0.26
    KENNEBEC        0.20
    VERMILLION      0.15
    MADISON         0.06

HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON WERE IN THE
UPPER 60S TO MID 70S EAST...AND MID 50S TO UPPER 60S WEST. ONE OF
THE COOLEST LOCATIONS WAS CUSTER...ONLY MAKING IT TO 56 DEGREES.
OTHERWISE...HIGHS ACROSS THE STATE RANGED FROM 57 AT BUFFALO...TO 75
AT BOTH HURON AND SISSETON. TWO OTHER MILD PLACES WERE CHAMBERLAIN
AND SIOUX FALLS...BOTH REPORTING HIGHS OF 74 DEGREES.

AT 8 PM CDT / 7 PM MDT...A MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY SKY WAS OVER
SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A
LINE FROM CANTON TO DRAPER...AND SCATTERED LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WEST
OF ANOTHER LINE FROM MISSION TO LEMMON. TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 60S
AND LOWER 70S EAST...AND 50S TO LOWER 60S WEST. EXTREMES ON THE HOUR
RANGED FROM 51 DEGREES AT BOTH CUSTER AND BUFFALO...TO 71 AT
SISSETON. WINDS ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF SOUTH
DAKOTA WERE BETWEEN WEST AND NORTH AT 8 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 30
TO 40 MPH AT CUSTER...ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE...RAPID CITY
AIRPORT...AND BUFFALO. THE REST OF THE STATE HAD WINDS BETWEEN
NORTHEAST AND SOUTH AT 3 TO 8 MPH.

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