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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
1113 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2013

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN SOUTH
DAKOTA THURSDAY EVENING WITH A DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY
AFTER MIDNIGHT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO THE TRI
STATE AREA NORTH OF BELLE FOURCHE LATE THURSDAY EVENING BEFORE
DIMINISHING. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS EARLY THURSDAY EVENING IN
SHANNON COUNTY PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME
SIZE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF AN INCH SOUTH OF
MARTIN...NORTHWEST OF PARMALEE AND NORTHWEST OF MISSION NEAR THE TODD
...MELLETTE COUNTY LINE. SOME OF THE HEAVIER RAINFALL AMOUNTS THAT
WERE MEASURED INCLUDE...

CITY                    RAINFALL   CITY             RAINFALL

OGLALA               0.50 INCHES   WINNER        0.58 INCHES
MARION               0.61 INCHES   HARTFORD      0.62 INCHES
TYNDALL              0.70 INCHES   HURLEY        0.72 INCHES
MARTIN               0.98 INCHES   4 NW RENNER   1.03 INCHES
8 W HUDSON           1.08 INCHES

THE AIRPORT LOCATION IN NORTH SIOUX FALLS MEASURED 0.45 INCHES BUT
EAST AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY RECEIVED FROM 7 TO 9 TENTHS
OF AN INCH.

DURING THE LATE NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING LOW CLOUDS AND FOG COVERED
MUCH OF THE CENTRAL AND NEAR THE BADLANDS. DENSE FOG WITH
VISIBILITIES OF A QUARTER MILE OR LESS OCCURRED AT HURON...PIERRE
...PHILIP AND WINNER. THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE WAS PARTLY TO
MOSTLY CLOUDY AT DAWN.

EARLY MORNING LOW TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE MID AND UPPER 40S ACROSS
THE WEST AND NORTH CENTRAL...AND IN THE 50S EAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL.
PHILIP AND PINE RIDGE WERE THE COOLEST ON THE PRAIRIES AT 45 DEGREES
WHILE IN THE BLACK HILLS CUSTER COOLED TO 43 DEGREES.

OVERNIGHT WINDS WERE LIGHT FAVORING AN EAST OR SOUTHEAST DIRECTION
ACROSS THE EAST AND SOUTH. AN EASTERLY WIND OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH
HIGHER GUSTS THURSDAY EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AND NEAR MOBRIDGE
DECREASED TO LESS THAN 10 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

AT 11 AM CDT LOW CLOUDS COVERED MUCH OF THE CENTRAL...MAINLY WEST
AND NORTH OF WINNER ALTHOUGH SKIES WERE SUNNY NEAR AND NORTH OF
GETTYSBURG. DENSE FOG CONTINUED IN WINNER. SKIES WERE PARTLY CLOUDY
OVER THE WEST...MOSTLY SUNNY NORTH CENTRAL AND BETWEEN WINNER AND
SIOUX FALLS...AND MOSTLY CLOUDY NORTHEAST AND FAR SOUTHEAST.
TEMPERATURES VARIED FROM 59 DEGREES AT WINNER TO 74 DEGREES AT SIOUX
FALLS.

ON THIS DATE IN 1934 TEMPERATURES SOARED TO 100 DEGREES OR HIGHER AT
THE FOLLOWING SITES...

100 DEGREES AT BROOKINGS...DUPREE...GETTYSBURG AND MOBRIDGE
101 DEGREES AT COTTONWOOD
102 DEGREES AT MURDO
103 DEGREES AT ABERDEEN...GREGORY...HIGHMORE...PIERRE...POLLOCK AND
    WOOD
104 DEGREES AT HURON AND WINNER
105 DEGREES AT ACADEMY...FORESTBURG...MELLETTE AND MITCHELL
106 DEGREES AT GANN VALLEY...KENNEBEC AND REDFIELD

SNOW ENDED ON THIS DATE IN 1942 ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. TWO DAY
SNOW TOTALS INCLUDE...

2.2 INCHES AT RAPID CITY
3 INCHES AT NEWELL
4 INCHES AT HOT SPRINGS
6 INCHES AT DUPREE AND FAITH
6.2 INCHES AT LEAD
8 INCHES AT LEMMON
12 INCHES AT BELLE FOURCHE
18 INCHES AT SPEARFISH

ON THIS DATE IN 1949 ABERDEEN RECEIVED 3.81 INCHES OF RAIN.


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SHEEHAN