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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 23, 2000Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 4:19 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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 23, 2000, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2000, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 4:19 PM MDTHail 1.75Johnson Siding, SDHail from 3/4" to 1.75" fell in a large swath through the central Black Hills.

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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 9 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 2000-06-23Temperature 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2000-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
1632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 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 23, 2:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:10 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
210 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 2000

CURRENT SURFACE MAP SHOWS TROF OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE
NEBRASKA/SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER. A COLD FRONT IS MOVING INTO EASTERN
WYOMING. SATELLITE/RADAR SHOWS A FEW -TSRA OVER EAST CENTRAL
WYOMING...WITH DEVELOPEMENT ALSO OCCURING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH
DAKOTA...THE BLACK HILLS...AND EASTERN WYOMING INTO SOUTHWESTERN
NORTH DAKOTA.

FOR TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP/MOVE ACROSS
SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ALONG TROF...WHERE BEST INSTABILITY IS
LOCATED. SHORTAVE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN MONTANA...ALONG WITH
ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL BRING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN
PART OF THE CWA. BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE ACROSS THE
NORTH WHERE EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW IS STRONGER.

FOR SATURDAY...SOME DIFFERENCES NOTED IN FORECAST HIGHS. FWC/MAV
GUIDANCE KEEPS HIGH TEMPERATURES AROUND 80...WHILE FORECAST SOUNDING
FROM ETA SHOWS HIGHS AROUND 90. ALL THREE MODELS BRING COLD FRONT
ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA LATE IN THE DAY...AS SURFACE LOW MOVES
ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA. BIG DIFFERENCES IN MODELS IN STRENGHT OF
SURFACE LOW...THUS THE STRENGHT OF SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF COLD
FRONT IS DIFFERENT. 850MB TEMPERATURES ON ALL THREE MODELS ARE ALSO
A FEW DEGREES WARMER THAN TODAY. WILL GO WITH HIGHS SLIGHTLY WARMER
THAN TODAY.

COLD FRONT COMES THROUGH CWA LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY MORNING.
GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR SUNDAY. WITH STEEP
LAPSE RATES...ISOLATED -SHRA/-TSRA MAY OCCUR...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF
THE FORECAST FOR NOW.

IN THE EXTENDED...NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE AREA WITH WEAK SHORTWAVES
MOVING THROUGH. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.

.UNR...NONE.

KC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 11:50 AM MDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
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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, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade61 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, 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

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.