Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2000, 3:43 AM MDT for Custer County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 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 24, 2000, 3:43 AM MDT (09:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2000, 4:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Custer County, SD, Pennington County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 1654 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 3:00 AM MDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:00 AM MDT, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence, Meade | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 49 min | |
| Jun 23, 7:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | 44 min | |
| Jun 23, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 54 min |
| Jun 23, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 10:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 16 min |
| Jun 24, 2:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 36 min |
| Jun 24, 3:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 4:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 3:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 20 min |
| Jun 24, 3:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 4:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 45 min |
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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.