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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 9, 2000Ziebach County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 8:47 PM MDT for Ziebach County, South Dakota. It was in force for 48 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, 8:47 PM MDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2000, 9:35 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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, 8:20 PM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:20 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 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, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:10 PM MDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:37 PM MDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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, 7:45 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

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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.