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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 11, 2000Butte County, Meade County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 3:39 PM MDT for Butte County, Meade County, South Dakota. It was in force for 61 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 11, 2000, 3:39 PM MDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2000, 4:40 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Butte County, SD, Meade County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 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 11, 12:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 12:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1245 PM MDT SUN JUN 11 2000

WILL MAKE THIS EARLY...SHORT... AND SIMPLE AS WARNINGS ARE BEGINING
TO BE ISSUED.

LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PUTS LOW OVER SE MT/NW SD WITH TROUGH EXTENDING
SWRD INTO ERN WY. 60F+ DEWPOINTS CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL AND
WRN SD. SATELLITE INDC CU DEVELOPING ALONG MENTIONED TROUGH...WITH
OROGRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT FM BLACK HILLS.

UNSTABLE ATMO OVER CWFA WITH SLIGHT RISK AREA OVER SD. SEE SPC DAY
ONE DISCUSSION FOR DETAILS. MVC MOVING OUT OF NEB HAS SPAWNED TSTMS
OVER S CENT SD. ROBUST SHEAR AND ANTICIPATED CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT
OVER NW SD. GONE CHC POPS TONIGHT MOST ZONES AS COVERAGE WILL BE
SOMEWHAT SCATTERED.

IN LATER PERIODS ...MODELS NOT IN PERFECT AGREEMENT...BUT GENERAL
FEATURES AGREE. POTENT S/WV APPROACHES MON NIGHT INTO TUE. GOOD WAA
AHEAD...AND CAA TUESDAY. BOTH THE AVN AND NGM GUIDANCE HAS DECENT
HANDLE ON THIS AND HAVEN'T VEARED MUCH. PREFER WARMER AVN TEMPS AND
SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM ON POPS.

.UNR...NONE.

MURPHY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:00 AM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-WYZ057-112200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1000 AM MDT SUN JUN 11 2000

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA LATE TODAY...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS ALL OF WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA AND CROOK AND WESTON COUNTIES OF EXTREME NORTHEASTERN
WYOMING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE
HAIL...IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH DIAMETER LATER THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER WESTERN
NEBRASKA...AND SPREAD NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE
STORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA WILL MOVE SLOWLY...
POTENTIALLY PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

ALSO...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL
INITIATE OVER WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM
WIND GUSTS...HOWEVER SOME LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE AS WELL.

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD END OVER MOST OF THE AREA BY
MIDNIGHT MDT...COUNTIES IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTR{AL SOUTH DAKOTA
MAY SEE SOME SEVERE STORMS BEYOND MIDNIGHT...UNTIL 3 AM CDT.

&&
WCJIN-WYNE

MURPHY
Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:19 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 12:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd59 min
Jun 11, 1:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd44 min
Jun 11, 1:52 PM MDTTornado WarningUNRButte48 min
Jun 11, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte33 min
Jun 11, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach44 min
Jun 11, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.