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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 1, 2000Mellette County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2000, 1:03 AM CDT for Mellette County, South Dakota. It was in force for 32 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
Jun 1, 2000, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2000, 1:35 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mellette County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 1, 1:05 AM CDTHail 0.75Wood, 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 2000-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 340 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
764 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.3

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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
May 31, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte43 min
May 31, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins43 min
May 31, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook36 min
May 31, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell37 min
May 31, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.