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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2000, 5:16 PM CDT for Mellette County, Todd County, South Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2000, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Pennington | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 35 min |
| Jul 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 67 min |
| Jul 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 46 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2000Every flash flood warning 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.