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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2003, 2:27 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2003, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pennington County, SD
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 5, 10:20 AM MDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 10:20 AM MDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 5:30 AM MDT, 8 hours 57 minutes before
SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-061300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 530 AM MDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM FAITH TO SPEARFISH TO PINE RIDGE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL TRACK ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS TEMPERATURES RAPIDLY WARM TODAY... THIS DISTURBANCE WILL TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THESE STORMS WILL THEN TRACK INTO CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A COOL FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION ON SUNDAY. AS THE COOL FRONT APPROACHES CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA SUNDAY AFTERNOON...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THIS AREA AND HAVE THE CHANCE OF BECOMING SEVERE. MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY AND TUESDAY ACROSS THE REGION. THEN...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND BRING DRIER WEATHER TO THE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 5, 9:38 AM MDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1230 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1225 PM 2 NW NEMO SD .88 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 LAWRENCE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jul 5, 12:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1250 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1240 PM 4 NW NEMO SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 LAWRENCE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jul 5, 1:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
118 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0100 PM 2 NE SILVER CITY SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 PENNINGTON EVENT DURATION 5
MINUTES. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:01 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
201 PM MDT SAT JUL 05 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0127 PM 1 NE DEADWOOD SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 LAWRENCE REPORTED BY OFF-DUTY
NWS EMPLOYEE.
0129 PM 3 NE DEADWOOD SD 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 LAWRENCE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0132 PM 5 SW RAPID CITY SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 PENNINGTON
0142 PM 3 SW JOHNSON SIDING SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/05/03 PENNINGTON REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 6:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 12:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 12:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 1:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 2:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Custer | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson, Pennington | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 59 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Jackson | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 4:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Jackson | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 4:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 39 min |
| Jul 5, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 64 min |
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Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.