Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 2:25 PM MDT for Meade County, South Dakota. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 26, 2002, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Meade County, SD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:30 PM MDT | Hail 4.5 | Elm Spgs, SD | Softball sized hail fell south of Elm Springs. The hail fell on open pasture and no damage or injuries were reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 12:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
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 26, 10:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 10:30 AM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1030 AM MDT MON AUG 26 2002 LATEST SFC ANALYSIS PLACES LOW OVER ERN CO WITH INVERTED TROF EXTENDING N OVER WRN SD. KUDX RADAR INDC SCT TSTMS OVER CENRAL SD ZONES MAINLY ALONG TROF AXIS. ONLY CLOUDS ON SATELLITE ARE ASSOC WITH TSTMS. CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK. HAVE UPDATED TO FRESHEN WORDING ON ON-GOING PRECIP. REST OF PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. .UNR...NONE 99
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 26, 12:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1247 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1116 AM 3 E WANBLEE SD .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 JACKSON REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1204 PM MARTIN SD 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 BENNETT
1229 PM 5 W MAURINE SD 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 PERKINS HAIL NEAR THE
MEADE/PERKINS COUNTY LINELocal storm report, Aug 26, 12:59 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO WHICH COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1259 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1229 PM 5 W MAURINE SD 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MEADE HAIL NEAR THE
MEADE/PERKINS COUNTY LINELocal storm report, Aug 26, 1:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
123 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1223 PM 6 N HOWES SD .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MEADE
1223 PM 9 SW BIXBY SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 PERKINS RECEIVED 4 INCHES OF RAIN
0100 PM MAURINE SD 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MEADE GROUND WAS WHITE WITH
QUARTER SIZED HAIL. A
FEW DRIFTS OF HAIL WERE
ALSO NOTED. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.Local storm report, Aug 26, 1:41 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
141 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1245 PM 13 SE ZEONA SD .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 PERKINS HAIL WAS FALLING ON AND
OFF FOR 30 MINUTES
BEGINNING AT 1245 PM MDT.Local storm report, Aug 26, 2:22 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
222 PM MDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 PM 7 SW ELM SPGS SD .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MEADE
0217 PM 5 SW ELM SPGS SD .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 MEADEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 10:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 49 min |
| Aug 26, 12:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson, Mellette | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 12:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 1:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 1:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 2:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 47 min |
| Aug 26, 6:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 9:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 11:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson, Mellette | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 11:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 62 min |
| Aug 26, 11:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 67 min |
| Aug 26, 12:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 12:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 12:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 50 min |
| Aug 26, 1:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 4:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Custer | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 4:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Custer | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Fall River | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.