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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 3, 2000Mellette County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 4:40 PM CDT for Mellette County, South Dakota. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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 3, 2000, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mellette County, SD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 3, 5:40 PM CDTHail 0.75White River, SD

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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 273 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 307 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
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

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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, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Pennington45 min
Jul 3, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette44 min
Jul 3, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington35 min
Jul 3, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade64 min
Jul 3, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington49 min
Jul 3, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd55 min
Jul 3, 5:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningUNRMellette, Todd4 hr
Jul 3, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette, Todd60 min
Jul 3, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd30 min
Jul 2, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook55 min
Jul 2, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston67 min
Jul 2, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook46 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.