Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 9:39 PM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report 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 9, 2001, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 10:07 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Winner, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 9, 9:20 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 9:20 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
627 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0550 PM 1 SE BLACK HAWK SD WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 MEADE TRACTOR TRAIL BLOW OFF
INTERSTATE. REPORTED BY
HAM RADIO OPERATOR.
@ RUKWBCe
KDENWWUS30 KRAP 100028
LSRRAP
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
628 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM 1 S NEWCASTLE WY WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 WESTON CAMPER FLIPPED OVER.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
@ RUKWBCe
KDENWWUS30 KRAP 100028
LSRRAP
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
628 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0452 PM NEWCASTLE WY WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 WESTON POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
628 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0452 PM NEWCASTLE WY WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 WESTON POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEME2NT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
629 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM NEWCASTLE WY WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 WESTON CHIMNEY BLOW OFF
BUILDING...WINDOWS
BLOWN OUT AND LARGE
TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
630 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0452 PM NEWCASTLE WY WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 WESTON 5 VEHICLES SUFFERED
MAJOR DAMAGE FROM FRONT
OF FORREST SERVICE
BUILDING. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
730 PM MDT SAT JUN 09 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM NEWCASTLE WY TORNADO
06/09/01 WESTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0615 PM PHILIP SD 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 HAAKON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0615 PM 14 E HERMOSA SD 75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 CUSTER REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0622 PM 12 E HERMOSA SD .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/01 CUSTER REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0635 PM SCENIC SD 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 PENNINGTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0635 PM SCENIC SD .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/01 PENNINGTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0640 PM 5 N KYLE SD 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 SHANNON REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0650 PM 3 NE INTERIOR SD 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0655 PM PHILIP SD WIND DAMAGE
06/09/01 HAAKON LARGE TREE DOWN.
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0700 PM 2 NE OWANKA SD .88 INCH HAIL
06/09/01 PENNINGTON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0705 PM KADOKA SD 75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0715 PM KADOKA SD 80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/09/01 JACKSON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:31 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 58 min |
| Jun 9, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 67 min |
| Jun 9, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd, Tripp | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.