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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Rapid City, SD

August 5, 2002Weston County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2002, 4:57 PM MDT for Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 63 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
Aug 5, 2002, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Weston County, WY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 5, 5:05 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EClareton, WY

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 Aug 5, 2:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
240 PM MDT MON AUG 5 2002

MAJOR CHANGES OCCURRING IN THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN LATE THIS WEEK.
THE WEST COAST TROUGH IS FORECAST TO OPEN UP AND MOVE EAST...THE
CENTRAL U.S. RIDGE IS SHOVED SOUTHWEST AND A MAJOR TROUGH IS
ESTABLISHED OVER CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA. AS THE WEST COAST TROUGH
CONTINUES TO WEAKEN A NUMBER OF SMALL IMPULSES WILL BREAK OFF AND
TRACK ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL STATES DURING THE
NEXT TWO DAYS.  HOWEVER THE MAJOR PUSH OF COLDER AIR WONT OCCUR IN
THE NORTHLAND UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK.

TONIGHT...A WEAK MID LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT OF CENTRAL WYOMING
THIS EVENING AND INTO WESTERN SOUTH DATKOTA TONIGHT PRODUCING
WIDESPREAD RAIN...AND SOME LOCALLY HEAVY THUNDERSHOWERS. THE AMS IS
VERY MOIST BUT SHEAR AND UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS ARE WEAK SO THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS MINIMAL BUT PRESENT. CAPES ARE IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 1000 EARLY THIS EVENING.

TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...AS THE SHORT WAVE EXITS THE
AREA...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE CONCENTRATED IN THE
ERN PART OF THE CWFA WITH MINIMAL CONVECTION OVER NERN WY AND THE
REGION AROUND THE BLACK HILLS.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THE WEST COAST TROUGH BEGINS TO BREAK UP
AND THE PIECES EXIT THROUGH THE NORTHERN STATES DURING THIS TIME.
THE AVN MODEL SEEMS TO HAVE OVERDEVELOPED AN H5 LOW OVER THE SWRN
CRNR OF SD. THE ASSCD PCPN FIELDS ARE PROBABLY MUCH OVERDONE.  WILL
JUST KEEP A CHC OF TSTMS IN THE PACKAGE TO THIS TIME PERIOD. DETAILS
ARE A LITTLE TOUGH TO IRON OUT THIS FAR IN ADVANCE.

SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...A MOSTLY DRY WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW SHOULD
KEEP THINGS PRETTY QUIET AND MILD.

.UNR...NONE.

CARPENTER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 11:25 AM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
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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.