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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 22, 2002Campbell County, Wyoming

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2002-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1539 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2002-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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 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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Lawrence44 min
Jun 22, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook18 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.