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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Rapid City, SD

August 26, 2002Tripp County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 3:28 AM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 26, 2002, 3:28 AM CDT (08:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tripp County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 25, 9:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 9:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN
WY...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
830 PM MDT SUN AUG 25 2002

WEAK WAVE SPARKING OFF MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
CWA THIS EVENING. LOW LEVEL JET IS ANTICIPATED TO INCREASE LATER
THIS EVENING ADVECTING IN LOWER TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE INTO THE
SOUTHERN PART OF THE CWA...AND KEEPING THE ATMOSPHERE QUITE UNSTABLE
AND KEEPING THE POSSIBLITY OF THUNDER IN THAT AREA.  STORMS
CURRENTLY OVER NW SOUTH DAKOTA ARE ANTICIPATED TO CONTINUE MOVING TO
THE EAST ALONG A MODERATE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...WITH SOME SEVERE
POSSIBLE AS THEY START TO TAP GREATER SURFACE MOISTURE TO THE EAST.
WILL MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE ZONES TO CLEAN UP PRCP WORDING.

.UNR...NONE
KLIMOWSKI

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 26, 2:30 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
130 AM MDT MON AUG 26 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0125 AM    WHITE RIVER               SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
08/26/02   MELLETTE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte59 min
Aug 25, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon49 min
Aug 26, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson, Mellette42 min
Aug 26, 1:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette56 min
Aug 26, 2:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTripp55 min
Aug 26, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMellette66 min
Aug 26, 7:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett59 min
Aug 26, 10:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon64 min
Aug 26, 12:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson, Mellette59 min
Aug 26, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins62 min
Aug 26, 12:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett67 min
Aug 26, 1:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade42 min
Aug 26, 1:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins64 min
Aug 26, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade50 min
Aug 26, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade63 min
Aug 26, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington55 min
Aug 26, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade35 min
Aug 26, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington63 min
Aug 26, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster63 min
Aug 26, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRCuster42 min
Aug 26, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRCuster42 min
Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River60 min
Aug 26, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

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