Back-to-back powerful Pacific storm systems to impact the Pacific Northwest and northern California through the end of this week with heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and higher elevation mountain snow. A strong, long-duration atmospheric river will accompany the Pacific storms, bringing excessive rainfall and flash flooding to southwest Oregon and northwest California through the week. Read More >
Aberdeen, SD
Weather Forecast Office
Local and Regional Events:
September 13, 1928:
An estimated F4 tornado traveled across Yankton and Turner County. An entire farm was swept away just as the family was about to enter the storm cellar. A man and his daughter were killed. A woman was killed in the town of Davis, in Turner County. Nine homes were destroyed, 52 were damaged, and 13 people were injured in Davis.
This image appeared in the South Dakota Magazine. Click HERE for more information on this event.
U.S.A and Global Events for September 13th:
1823: A strong category 1 or low category 2 hurricane struck near New Orleans, Louisiana and went toward Baton Rouge. Its strongest impacts occurred west of New Orleans. Click HERE for a tweet from Cary Mock, Professor at the University of South Carolina.
1944: The destroyer USS Warrington was sunk by the Great Atlantic Hurricane 300 miles east of Cape Canaveral, Florida. 247 men were lost in the tragedy.
1978: Little Rock, Arkansas saw 8.10 inches of rain which caused major flash flooding. Ten people were killed. Click HERE for a tweet by the NWS Office in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1988: Hurricane Gilbert smashed into the Cayman Islands, and as it headed for the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico strengthened into a monster hurricane, packing winds of 175 mph. The barometric pressure at the center of Gilbert reached 888 mb, a record for any hurricane in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, or the Atlantic Ocean until Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Gilbert covered much of the Gulf of Mexico, producing rain as far away as the Florida Keys.
2008: Hurricane Ike made landfall as a Category 2 storm near Galveston, Texas. Click HERE for more information from the NWS Office in Houston, Texas.
2017: The NWS Office in Reno, Nevada, issued their first tornado warning since July 21st, 2014. Click HERE for a tweet by the NWS Office in Reno. A funnel cloud was spotted over Lake Tahoe.
Click HERE for the above tweet.
US Dept of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Weather Service
Aberdeen, SD
824 391st Ave S.
Aberdeen, SD 57401-9311
605-225-0519
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