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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 23, 2000Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 8:46 PM MDT for Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 54 min. 4 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 23, 2000, 8:46 PM MDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2000, 9:40 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties

Counties Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 18 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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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 8:49 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 61 EUnion Center, SD
Jun 23, 9:12 PM MDTHail 0.75Hill City, SD
Jun 23, 9:25 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EPlainview, SD
Jun 23, 9:48 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 ECreighton, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 23, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1654 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 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
1654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.7

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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, 8:30 PM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 8:30 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:12 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
512 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0412 PM    JOHNSON SIDING            SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   PENNINGTON

0428 PM    RAPID CITY                SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   PENNINGTON

0443 PM    3 SW RAPID CITY           SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   PENNINGTON

0448 PM    ROCKERVILLE               SD   1.5 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   PENNINGTON
Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:24 PM MDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
524 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0513 PM    1 S HERMOSA               SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   CUSTER
Local storm report, Jun 23, 6:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
630 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....R

0621 PM    1 N CASTLE ROCK           SD   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   BUTTE
Local storm report, Jun 23, 6:39 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
639 PM MDT FRI JUN 23 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....K

0620 PM    4 NW CASTLE ROCK          SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/23/00   BUTTE                          REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
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Local storm report, Jun 23, 7:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:19 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte44 min
Jun 23, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Lawrence, Meade63 min
Jun 23, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR49 min
Jun 23, 7:06 PM MDTTornado WarningUNR44 min
Jun 23, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Meade, Pennington59 min
Jun 23, 9:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington30 min
Jun 23, 9:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson47 min
Jun 23, 10:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington16 min
Jun 24, 2:39 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington36 min
Jun 24, 3:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington31 min
Jun 24, 3:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Pennington47 min
Jun 24, 4:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington45 min
Jun 24, 3:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell20 min
Jun 24, 3:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston47 min
Jun 24, 4:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston45 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.