Tornado Warning 8, NWS Rapid City, SD

Issued

Jul 21, 2000, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)

Expired

Jul 21, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Rapid City, SD

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mellette County, SD

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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.

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.

173 
WFUS53 KUNR 211826
TORRAP
SDC095-211900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
125 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RAPID CITY SD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MELLETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 120 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF WOOD...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  EAST OF WHITE RIVER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WOOD AROUND 130 PM CDT
  MOSHER AROUND 140 PM CDT

MOVE QUICKLY TO A STURDY INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. ABANDON YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME FOR A STRONGER 
SHELTER. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY
ISSUED FOR THE AREA.

LAT...LON 4365 10041 4356 10062 4340 10048 4340 10021

KLIMOWSKI

NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 21, 10:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
945 AM MDT FRI JUL 21 2000

HAVE UPDATED THE ZONES TO REFLECT ISOLATED NATURE OF SHOWERS
CURRENTLY OVER THE CWA...WITH AN ACTIVITY INCREASING DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TEMPS CURRENTLY LOOK OK. DECENT SHORTWAVE
TROUGH IS VISIBLE IN THE WATER VAPOUR IMAGERY OVER MT AND NORTHERN
WY...AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
BRINGING SOME INCREASE IN THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY AND SOME SEVERE
WEATHER TO THE AREA. THERE IS NOT A CLEAR FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR THE
CONVECTION TODAY...SO WILL BROADBRUSH THE SWO TO INCLUDE SLIGHT RISK
OF SEVERE OVER MUCH OF THE CWA...WITH HAIL AS THE PRIMARY THREAT.
WIND SHEAR IS GREATER TOWARD THE SOUTH...WITH GREATEST THREAT OF
ROTATING STORMS GENERALLY SOUTH OF RAPID CITY.

.UNR...NONE.

KLIMOWSKI

In the hours before

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-WYZ054>058-212130-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1000 AM MDT FRI JUL 21 2000

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...

A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL INTERACT WITH UNSTABLE AIR OVER
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA TO CREATE A SLIGHT
RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN
THREAT FROM ANY STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

GR

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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.