Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 22, 2000Meade County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 7:44 PM MDT for Meade County, South Dakota. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2000, 7:44 PM MDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2000, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Meade County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 8:13 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EBear Butte, SD
Jun 22, 8:26 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 61 EHereford, SD
Jun 22, 8:45 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 61 EElm Spgs, SD

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 343 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2000-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Lawrence48 min
Jun 22, 8:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade56 min
Jun 22, 8:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington44 min
Jun 22, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon62 min
Jun 23, 4:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington56 min
Jun 23, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster52 min
Jun 23, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte61 min
Jun 23, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR46 min
Jun 22, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook44 min
Jun 22, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.