Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2003, 3:33 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 42 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
- Jul 4, 2003, 3:33 PM MDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2003, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pennington County, SD
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
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 4, 3:15 PM MDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:15 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 5:00 AM MDT, 10 hours 33 minutes before
SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-051101- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 500 AM MDT FRI JUL 4 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 SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH. A FAST MOVING UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL COMBINE WITH EASTERLY SURFACE WINDS LATER TODAY TO PRODUCE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REGION. PLENTY OF HEATING AND LINGERING MOISTURE... ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL COUNTIES...WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SOME SEVERE STORMS. ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE FRONT APPROACHES... RESULTING IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER IF STORMS DEVELOP... MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM PHILIP TO MARTIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL CROSS THE DAKOTAS ON SATURDAY RESULTING IN ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. OCCASIONAL FAST MOVING IMPULSSES COMBINED WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL RESULT IN A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT TIMES FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 4, 11:48 AM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
1148 AM MDT FRI JUL 04 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1120 PM 1 N RALPH SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/03 HARDING REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
1125 PM 17 N THUNDER BUTTE SD .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/03 ZIEBACH
1130 PM 24 N DUPREE SD .88 INCH HAIL
07/03/03 ZIEBACH REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
1230 AM SHADEHILL SD 1 INCH HAIL
07/04/03 PERKINS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0100 AM 9 SE DUPREE SD 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/04/03 ZIEBACH 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 3, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 6:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 7:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 8:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 11:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 11:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 11:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 11:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 59 min |
| Jul 4, 12:07 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 68 min |
| Jul 4, 12:40 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 12:42 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2003Every severe thunderstorm 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.