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SOUTH DAKOTA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
859 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2013

LOW PRESSURE ORGANIZING IN NORTHEAST WYOMING AND SOUTHEAST
MONTANA...AND A WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN AND
SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA...BROUGHT A MILD AND
MAINLY DRY DAY TO SOUTH DAKOTA. THERE WERE SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS SOUTHEAST OF PIERRE AND SOUTHEAST OF WINNER EARLY THIS
AFTERNOON...AND THEN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY EAST
OF A LINE FROM CRANDALL TO WAKONDA MID AFTERNOON THROUGH MID
EVENING. THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON WAS PARTLY SUNNY TO CLOUDY IN THE
EASTERN PARTS OF SOUTH DAKOTA...AND MOSTLY SUNNY TO SUNNY IN THE
WEST. THIS ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO RISE TO ABOVE NORMAL MAXIMUMS.
READINGS WERE SLOW TO FALL THIS EVENING...WITH THE WARM FRONT STILL
PUSHING NORTHEAST.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN SOUTH DAKOTA TODAY WERE SPARSE AND MINIMAL. MANY
MEASUREMENTS WERE TRACES OR A FEW HUNDREDTHS. HOWEVER...DOPPLER
RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN COLTON AND DELL RAPIDS WERE AROUND 0.75 AND
1.00 INCH. TWO REPORTS RECEIVED THIS EVENING INCLUDED 0.01 AT PINE
RIDGE...AND A TRACE AT THE SIOUX FALLS AIRPORT.

HIGH TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON WERE MOSTLY IN
THE MID 80S TO AROUND 90 DEGREES. THE BLACK HILLS AREA WAS COOLER...
WITH CUSTER ONLY REACHING 76. TWO OF THE LEAST WARM PLACES ON THE
PLAINS WERE BROOKINGS AND MADISON...BOTH HITTING 84 DEGREES. ONE OF
THE HOTTEST SPOTS WAS PHILIP...PEAKING AT 91. MITCHELL WAS CLOSE
BEHIND...WITH 90 DEGREES.

AT 8 PM CDT / 7 PM MDT...THE SKY WAS CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY OVER THE
MAJORITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA. HOWEVER...IT WAS MOSTLY CLOUDY EAST OF A
LINE FROM FREDRICK TO DELL RAPIDS...AND CLOUDY OVER MUCH OF THE
BLACK HILLS...FROM THE WYOMING BORDER...EAST TOWARD BELLE FOURCHE
AND HILL CITY...AND OUT NORTHEAST TOWARD UNION CENTER. TEMPERATURES
WERE STILL MAINLY IN THE 80S...EXCEPT FOR CUSTER...ALREADY DOWN TO
72. EXTREMES ACROSS THE PLAINS ON THE HOUR RANGED FROM 80 AT
WATERTOWN...TO 87 AT BOTH PHILIP AND MITCHELL. WINDS ACROSS THE
WESTERN HALF OF SOUTH DAKOTA WERE MAINLY SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH AT 13 TO
20 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 22 TO 35 MPH. BUFFALO WAS EXCEPTIONALLY
WINDY..WITH AN EAST WIND AT 24 MPH...GUSTING TO 35 MPH. MEANWHILE...
THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE HAD SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WINDS AT 7 TO
18 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 16 TO 25 MPH.

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