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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2002, 3:08 PM MDT for Campbell County, Wyoming. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 22, 2002, 3:08 PM MDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Campbell County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 449 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
- 1539 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 22, 3:00 PM MDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 3:00 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY 300 PM MDT SAT JUN 22 2002 WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS NEXT SHORTWAVE ROTATING INTO SE WY ATTM WITH CONVECTION FIRING AS UPPER DIVERGENCE INCREASES ACROSS THE AREA. N-S SURFACE TROUGH HAS MOVED E INTO SWRN SD WITH WARM FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR BLKHLS TO NE SD. DEWPOINTS RANGE FROM 55F TO 65F AHEAD OF THE TROUGH IN SC SD BUT CAP REMAINS IN PLACE. CAP MAY BE BROKEN THIS EVENING AS LEADING SHORTWAVE CROSSES CENTRAL SD. TO THE WEST OF THE TROUGH OVER NE WYOMING...DEWPOINTS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE MID 40S AS WRLY DOWNSLOPE WINDS INDUCE LL DRYING. INVERTED V TYPE SOUNDINGS POINT TO POSSIBLILITY OF DRY MICROBURST OR LARGE HAIL. FOCUS FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WILL SHIFT NORTHEASTWARD TOWARD NW SD THIS EVENING. ON SUNDAY...UPPER LOW MOVES FROM NE MT ACROSS ND. ETA BUFKIT SOUNDINGS INDICATE GREATEST LIFT AND INSTABILITY WILL BE ACROSS OUR NRN ZONES...CLOSER TO THE UPPER LOW. HAVE TRIMMED BACK PRECIP COVERAGE AND REMOVED FROM OUR SRN ZONES ON SUNDAY. A WEAK SHORTWAVE CROSSES THE REGION ON MONDAY BUT WITH LL MOISTURE LACKING AND A WEAK CAPPING INVERSION WILL LEAVE THE FORECAST DRY. UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE NRN PLAINS FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. AVN INDICATING A FEW WEAK DISTURBANCES ACROSS THE REGION ON THOSE DAYS...BUT ANY CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE ISOLATED...LEAVING THE MAJORITY OF WRN SD AND NE WY DRY. A TROUGH PASSING TO THE NORTH WILL FLATTEN THE RIDGE ON FRIDAY...WITH A SFC COLD FRONT PASSING THROUGH AS WELL. THIS WILL BRING THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN FOR THE WEEK WITH A RETURN TO DRY WEATHER AND ONLY SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY. .UNR...NONE. GR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 10:25 AM MDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 18 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.