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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 4, 2000Haakon County, Ziebach County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2000, 9:38 PM MDT for Haakon County, Ziebach County, South Dakota. It was in force for 67 min. 3 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 4, 2000, 9:38 PM MDT (03:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2000, 10:45 PM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Whole counties

Counties Haakon County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jul 4, 10:00 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Red Scaffold, SD
Jul 4, 10:10 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Kirley, SD
Jul 4, 10:30 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Cherry Creek, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

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 Jul 4, 9:10 PM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:10 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 8:13 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
813 PM MDT TUE JUL 04 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0536 PM    18 N RECLUSE              WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/00   CAMPBELL                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER SIX MILES SOUTH
                                          OF MT STATE LINE.

0545 PM    10 W ROCKYPOINT           WY   2.5 INCH HAIL
07/04/00   CAMPBELL                       8 S OF MT STATE LINE ON
                                          HWY 59. REPORTED BY
                                          STORM SPOTTER.

0550 PM    LIGHTNING FLAT            WY   1 INCH HAIL
07/04/00   CROOK                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0753 PM    CASTLE ROCK               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/00   BUTTE                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER. HAIL FELL FROM
                                          753 PM MDT UNTIL 803 PM
                                          MDT.

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Special weather statement, Jul 4, 8:53 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

SDZ001-050300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
853 PM MDT TUE JUL 4 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 534 FOR HARDING COUNTY CANCELLED...

THE THREAT FOR SEVERJE WEATHER OVER HARDING COUNTY HAS ENDED FOR THIS
EVENING. BECAUSE OF THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH HAD BEEN
IN EFFECT FOR HARDING COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	58 min
Jul 4, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	48 min
Jul 4, 8:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	60 min
Jul 4, 8:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Meade	22 min
Jul 4, 8:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Meade	32 min
Jul 4, 9:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	17 min
Jul 5, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence	50 min
Jul 5, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence	47 min
Jul 5, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence	47 min
Jul 4, 6:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.