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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 20, 2002Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2002, 4:12 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 18 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: Jul 20, 2002, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2002, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pennington County, SD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 20, 4:26 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Deerfield, 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.

NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 20, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 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
Jul 19, 9:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	52 min
Jul 19, 10:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	48 min
Jul 19, 10:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	44 min
Jul 20, 12:37 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Perkins	53 min
Jul 20, 1:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	51 min
Jul 20, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Pennington	47 min
Jul 20, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	58 min
Jul 20, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	41 min
Jul 20, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence	37 min
Jul 19, 7:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Campbell	59 min
Jul 19, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook	27 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.