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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 1, 2000Tripp County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 1, 2000, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tripp County, SD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 1, 9:00 PM CDTHail 0.75Colome, SD
Jul 1, 9:00 PM CDTThunderstorm WindColome, SDSeveral 300 pound hog feeders were blown over and damaged.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 1, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3394 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.0

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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
Jul 1, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade34 min
Jul 1, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade, Ziebach62 min
Jul 1, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade59 min
Jul 2, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.