Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2001, 5:05 PM MDT for Lawrence County, South Dakota. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2001, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2001, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lawrence County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 26, 1:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 155 PM MDT THU JUL 26 2001 THUNDERSTORMS ARE THE MAIN CONCERN TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING...THEN DRIER CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. A VERY MOIST AIR MASS WAS IN PLACE ACROSS THE CWFA TODAY...WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER OF 1.19 INCHES ON THE 1900Z KUNR SOUNDING (WHICH IS NEARLY TWO STANDARD DEVIATIONS ABOVE THE MEDIAN). SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATED A RATHER PRONOUNCED TROUGH THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CWFA OVERNIGHT. THERE IS SOME DIFFERENCE IN THE MODEL QPF AS THE ETA/RUC OUTPUT QUITE A BIT OF PRECIPITATION OVER WEST-CENTRAL SD...WHILE THE NGM/AVN KEEP MOST OF THEIR QPF ALONG THE NORTHERN/SOUTHERN EDGES OF THE CWFA. THE SEVERE THREAT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE AS HIGH AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT GIVEN THE WEAK MID-LEVEL WINDS...BUT HEAVY RAIN IS OF SOME CONCERN GIVEN THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT...STRONG MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E ADVECTION...AND MEAN WIND OF 15-20 KNOTS. ON FRIDAY...EXPECT SOME LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL SD...BUT CLEARING SKIES SHOULD PROGRESS ACROSS THE CWFA AS SHORT-WAVE RIDGING AND WEAK COLD ADVECTION DEVELOP. BY FRIDAY NIGHT...SOME RETURN SOUTHEAST FLOW... WARM ADVECTION...AND A WEAK WAVE SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR A FEW STORMS TO DEVELOP LATE OVER THE NORTHERN/WESTERN CWFA. WARMER AIR WILL RETURN FOR SATURDAY AHEAD OF A PACIFIC COLD FRONT THAT ENTERS WESTERN MT. THE CAP SHOULD RULE FOR THE MOST PART...BUT ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT GIVEN THE AVAILABLE MOISTURE...INSTABILITY...AND SURFACE TROUGH. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTH SATURDAY NIGHT AS A SHORT-WAVE TROUGH MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA...WITH ONLY ISOLATED EVENING STORMS SOUTH. NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED AS THE SAME GENERAL PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST. .UNR...NONE. MJB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 26, 11:05 AM MDT, 6 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1105 AM MDT THU JUL 26 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0130 AM 3 S COLONY WY .75 INCH HAIL
07/26/01 CROOK REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0415 AM 9 NNE MARCUS SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/26/01 MEADE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0500 AM 12 S FAITH SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/26/01 MEADE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0530 AM 11 SW RED ELM SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/26/01 ZIEBACH REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0830 AM RED SCAFFOLD SD 1 INCH HAIL
07/26/01 ZIEBACH REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jul 26, 4:45 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 55 min |
| Jul 25, 6:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 4:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 4:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Ziebach | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 7:40 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 63 min |
| Jul 26, 1:07 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 38 min |
| Jul 26, 4:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Campbell | 41 min |
| Jul 26, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Crook | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 5:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Campbell | 31 min |
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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.