Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Rapid City, SD
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.
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 7:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Meade | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Perkins | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 8:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 48 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.