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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 3, 2000Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 2:56 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 49 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
Jul 3, 2000, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Pennington County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 349 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 2, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Pennington45 min
Jul 3, 2:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette44 min
Jul 3, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington35 min
Jul 3, 2:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade64 min
Jul 3, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette65 min
Jul 3, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd55 min
Jul 3, 4:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningUNRMellette, Todd4 hr
Jul 3, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette, Todd60 min
Jul 3, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd30 min
Jul 2, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook55 min
Jul 2, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston67 min
Jul 2, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.