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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 588

July 19, 200121 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT for 21 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2001, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

Warnings issued inside it

16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington50 min
Jul 19, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson47 min
Jul 19, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding48 min
Jul 19, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon64 min
Jul 19, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson34 min
Jul 19, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding62 min
Jul 19, 6:41 PM MDTTornado WarningUNRHarding49 min
Jul 19, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster41 min
Jul 19, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach48 min
Jul 19, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding58 min
Jul 19, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson54 min
Jul 19, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRDewey33 min
Jul 19, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach34 min
Jul 19, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson, Dewey45 min
Jul 19, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins59 min
Jul 19, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCorson56 min

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 315 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2001-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2001-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 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
127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-567 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButte, Corson, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach5 hr
Jul 18, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButte, Corson, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach5 hr
Jul 18, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Campbell, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand and 7 more5 hr
Jul 19, 2:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, McPherson and 2 more5 hr

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.