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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 8, 2002Fall River County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2002, 7:58 PM MDT for Fall River County, South Dakota. It was in force for 62 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 8, 2002, 7:58 PM MDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2002, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fall River County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 8, 8:34 PM MDT	Hail 1	Edgemont, 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.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 9:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Harding	64 min
Jun 8, 10:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Harding	31 min
Jun 8, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2002 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.