Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 29, 1997Lawrence County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1997, 2:55 PM MDT for Lawrence County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1997, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 3:40 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lawrence County, SD, Pennington County, SD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 3:36 PM MDTHail 2Rapid City, SD
Jun 29, 3:45 PM MDTHail 2Rapid City, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 352 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1997-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1997-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-326 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 12:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington47 min
Jun 29, 1:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington50 min
Jun 29, 1:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson47 min
Jun 29, 2:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson46 min
Jun 29, 3:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington58 min
Jun 29, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster60 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook46 min
Jun 28, 7:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook31 min
Jun 29, 12:29 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell, Crook46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.