Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1998, 8:13 PM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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 23, 1998, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 253 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1938 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 23, 11:03 AM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 11:03 AM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1003 AM MDT TUE JUN 23 1998 VSBL STLT SHOWS ACCAS FLD DEVLOPED INTO -TSRA FROM ECNTRL WY INTO SCNTRL SD. RUC2 SHOWS INCREASING INSTABILITY AS HEATING CONTINUES IN MO CLEAR SKIES N OF CONVECTION. COMBINATION OF U70 TO AROUND 80 TEMPS AND DWPTS A60 SHOULD PRODUCE CAPES IN THE 2500 TO 3000 J/KG RANGE BY THIS AFTERNOON. RUC2 WANTS STORMS TO REALLY TAKE OFF AS THE ACCAS LINE MAKES IT TO THE BLK HLS BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THIS LOOKS REASONABLE. EARLY ON WOULD LOOK FOR MULTICELL STORMS AS SHEAR WILL BE A LITTLE LACKING...BUT BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AS CAPE AND SHEAR INCREASE SUPERCELLS WILL BE A GOOD POSSIBILITY. AS FAR AS HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL OVR BLK HLS...MULTICELL MOTION OUGHT TO BE NE AT 15-20 KTS AND SUPERCELL MOTION...IF IT COMES TO THAT...SHOULD BE E AT 10 TO 15 KTS. THIS SHOULD LIMIT HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL...BUT WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR THE ROGUE TSRA WITH SLOWER MOVEMENT POSSIBLY DUE TO TERRAIN INTERACTIONS OVR BLK HLS. .UNR...NONE. BAILEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 23, 7:22 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
633 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM 10 NNW (RCA)ELLSWORTH AFB RAPID CITY
SD TORNADO
06/23/98 MEADE THIN ROPE TORNADO.
ESTIMATED 150 YARDS
WIDE AT THE BASE.Local storm report, Jun 23, 7:33 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
633 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0630 PM 10 NNW (RCA)ELLSWORTH AFB RAPID CITY
SD TORNADO
06/23/98 MEADE THIN ROPE TORNADO.
ESTIMATED 150 YARDS
WIDE AT THE BASE.Local storm report, Jun 23, 7:55 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
655 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM 6 N (RCA)ELLSWORTH AFB RAPID CITY
SD TORNADO
06/23/98 MEADE REPORTED BY NUMEROUS
SPOTTERS...STILL ON THE
GROUND AT 1855 UTC.
ZEITLERLocal storm report, Jun 23, 7:55 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
655 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM 6 N (RCA)ELLSWORTH AFB RAPID CITY
SD TORNADO
06/23/98 MEADE REPORTED BY NUMEROUS
SPOTTERS...STILL ON THE
GROUND AT 1855 UTC.
ZEITLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Pennington | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Pennington | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Pennington | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Fall River | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 34 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.