Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2003, 12:11 PM MDT for Lawrence County, South Dakota. It was in force for 34 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 5, 2003, 12:11 PM MDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 12:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lawrence County, SD
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 5, 10:20 AM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 10:20 AM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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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, 7:42 AM MDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 12:46 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, 2:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | Pennington | 3 hr |
| 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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Sources
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