Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 569

July 10, 200011 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2000, 4:45 PM MDT for 11 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2000, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook57 min
Jul 10, 5:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington47 min
Jul 10, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston56 min
Jul 10, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell, Crook, Weston58 min
Jul 10, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River44 min
Jul 10, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook, Weston45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 554 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -31 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
554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.5

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The text

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCUnion5 hr
Jul 10, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHarding6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wyoming, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.