Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Rapid City, SD

March 12, 2001Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 3:50 PM MST for Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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: Mar 12, 2001, 3:50 PM MST (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2001, 4:30 PM MST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

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 22:53 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 12, 4:15 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 M	Rapid City, SD
Mar 12, 4:25 PM MST	Thunderstorm Wind 61 M	(Rca)Ellsworth Afb R, 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 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 Mar 12, 2:00 PM MST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 2:00 PM MST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.