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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 21, 1997Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 1997, 4:21 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1997, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1997, 4:55 PM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 20, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River49 min
Jun 21, 12:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte46 min
Jun 21, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade47 min
Jun 21, 2:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade63 min
Jun 21, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade46 min
Jun 21, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington49 min
Jun 21, 4:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson46 min
Jun 21, 5:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson45 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.