234 SXUS99 KFSD 192300 RERFSD RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 600 PM CDT SUN OCT 19 2003 ...ANOTHER FIVE HEAT RECORDS SET THIS AFTERNOON... WITH ONLY SOME SCATTERED HIGH LEVEL CIRRUS CLOUDS...TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST IOWA WARMED INTO THE MID AND UPPER 80S. THIS BROKE OR TIED AT LEAST FIVE RECORD HIGHS. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE RECORDS IN THE SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY THAT WERE BROKEN OR TIED TODAY: THROUGH 406 PM CDT...THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AT SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA WAS 85 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE DAILY RECORD FOR THE DATE OF 84...WHICH WAS SET IN 1958. THROUGH 352 PM CDT...THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AT MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA WAS 86 DEGREES. THIS TIED THE DAILY RECORD FOR THE DATE... WHICH FIRST OCCURRED IN 1958. THROUGH 455 PM CDT...THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AT YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA WAS 88 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE DAILY RECORD FOR THE DATE OF 86... WHICH WAS SET IN 1884. THROUGH 413 PM CDT...THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AT SIOUX CITY IOWA WAS 88 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE DAILY RECORD FOR THE DATE OF 86...WHICH WAS SET IN 1958. THROUGH 327 PM CDT...THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE AT SPENCER IOWA WAS 89 DEGREES. THIS BROKE THE DAILY RECORD FOR THE DATE OF 83...WHICH WAS SET IN 1958. $$