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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 9, 2000Perkins County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 7:45 PM MDT for Perkins County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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
Jun 9, 2000, 7:45 PM MDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Perkins County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 9, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1748 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 126 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
1748 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1446 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 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.

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 Jun 9, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
300 PM MDT FRI JUN 9 2000

LITTLE TIME TO TYPE ATTM SO WILL BE BRIEF. UPPER VORT WORKING ITS
WAY ACROSS WY ATTM WITH NR SVR CONVECTION OVR THE FAR NW PTN OF CWA.
WITH FNT EXTENDING FROM FAR NRN WY THROUGH NW SD INTO NE ND...HIGHER
DWPTS CONFINED TO AREAS N OF FNT WITH DRY DOWNSLOPE AIR AHEAD OF IT.
BEST CAPES AND SHEAR N OF FNT...AND THUS EXPECT BEST SVR CHC THERE
WITH MUCH LESS CHC FURTHER S TOWARDS RAP AND CNTRL.SRN BLK HLS. IN
THE HILLS MAIN PROBLEM WILL BE POTENTIAL FOR DRY LIGHTNING FOLLOWED
BY CD FNT PASSAGE OVERNIGHT. CONTINUE RED FLAG WARNING FOR BLK HLS
FOR THESE REASSONS, PLUS 10 HOUR FM IN THE 3 TO 5% RANGE. AFTER THAT
IT LOOKS QUIET FOR A WHILE WITH WITH CHC OF NOCTURNAL CONVECTION SAT
NIGHT AND SUN NIGHT. FOR TEMPS FOLLOWED MAV/FWC COMPROMISE.

.UNR...NONE.
BAILEY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
611 PM MDT FRI JUN 09 2000

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

0355 PM    14 NW RECLUSE             WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   CAMPBELL                       BROKE WINDOWS IN HOUSE
                                          AND OUT OF VEHICLE.
                                          REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0428 PM    13 W PHILIP               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   HAAKON                         REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0450 PM    10 N PHILIP               SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   HAAKON                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0530 PM    OTTUMWA                   SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   HAAKON                         WINDOWS BROKEN OUT OF
                                          TRAILER HOUSE. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          OFFICIAL.

0530 PM    2 NE OTTUMWA              SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   HAAKON                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0605 PM    3 S HARDING               SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   HARDING                        REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.
Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:37 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTripp32 min
Jun 9, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding47 min
Jun 9, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins45 min
Jun 9, 7:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Meade32 min
Jun 9, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade, Perkins45 min
Jun 9, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach48 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.