Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 20, 2002Meade County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2002, 5:04 PM MDT for Meade County, South Dakota. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports 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, 5:04 PM MDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2002, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 41 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
Jul 20, 5:07 PM MDT	Hail 0.88	Black Hawk, SD
Jul 20, 5:07 PM MDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Black Hawk, 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, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 20, 5:02 PM MDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
502 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1250 AM    8 NW USTA                 SD   1 INCH HAIL
07/20/02   PERKINS                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

1250 AM    8 NW USTA                 SD   WIND DAMAGE
07/20/02   PERKINS                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0130 AM    2 W GLAD VLY              SD   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/20/02   ZIEBACH                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER. TREE BRANCHES
                                          BROKEN.

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, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	18 min
Jul 20, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	58 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.