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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 7, 2000

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT. It was in force for 35 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
May 7, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2000, 6:20 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

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 May 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
300 PM MDT SUN MAY 7 2000

TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM MDT FOR SOUTHWEST/SOUTH CENTRAL
COUNTIES. STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL WYOMING...WITH
CONVECTION FIRING UP OVER EAST CENTRAL WYOMING. SUFFICIENT
SHEAR/INSTABILITY OVER FAR SOUTH FOR SUPERCELLS.

SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT...WITH PRECIP ENDING.
UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK.

.UNR...NONE.

KC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River34 min
May 7, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River45 min
May 7, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett60 min
May 7, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd59 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.