Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 1, 2001Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2001, 3:42 AM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 63 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: May 1, 2001, 3:42 AM MDT (09:42 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2001, 4:45 AM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pennington County, SD

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 May 1, 2:45 AM MDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:45 AM MDT, 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
245 AM MDT TUE MAY 1 2001

IMMEDIATE PROBLEM SVR WX IN FAR WRN PTN OF THE CWA. WND SPD TREND IS
DOWN WITH SHR RECORDING 60 KTS...GCC RECORDING 52 KTS AND 2WX
RECORDING 48 KTS. FEEL CONVECTION IS WEAKENING AND WNDS DECREASING
AS CD POOL SPREADS OUT...NOT JUST AN ILLUSION OF THE RADAR HOLE.
WILL WORD -SHRA ENDING N EARLY. OTHERWISE...MDLS AGREE WITH PRETTY
GOOD WNDS TODAY BEHIND CD FNT. LLVL AGEO AND GEO WINDS OPPOSE EACH
OTHER...SO NOT CONCERNED ABOUT WARNING CRITERIA WNDS...BUT WILL GO
WITH ADVY ALONG AND N OF I90 IN SD TODAY. AFTER THAT...MAIN PROBLEM
WILL BE WK -SHRA IN RATHER CD UNSTABLE AIR. CAPES LOOK WK...BUT DEEP
ENOUGH TO SUPPORT -SHRA WITH AN ISOLATED --TSRA OVER THE BLK HLS
THIS AFTERNOON AND SOUTH WED AFTERNOON AND EVE. WILL GO GENERALLY
WITH GUIDANCE TEMPS AS THEY LOOK REASONABLE. AT 60 HRS ETA DOESN'T e
HAVE SW US LOW CLOSED...BUT WITHOUT AN UPSTREAM KICKER...WOULDN'T BE
SURPRISED IF AVN IS CORRECT IN CLOSING IT OFF...MEANING WEEKEND WILL
LIKELY BE WET AS THE WAVE MEANDERS INTO PLAINS.

.UNR...NONE.
BAILEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 2:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding	54 min
May 1, 3:04 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence	56 min
May 1, 3:22 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Perkins	68 min
May 1, 1:45 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Campbell	60 min
May 1, 1:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.