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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 27, 2003Harding County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 1:56 PM MDT for Harding County, South Dakota. It was in force for 64 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 27, 2003, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harding County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2003-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding32 min
Jun 27, 3:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade, Perkins65 min
Jun 27, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade47 min
Jun 27, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Pennington45 min
Jun 27, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson60 min
Jun 27, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson48 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.