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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 13, 2003Meade County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 5:24 PM MDT for Meade County, South Dakota. It was in force for 36 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 13, 2003, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, SD

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 244 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2003-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-400 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 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
Jul 13, 3:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR64 min
Jul 13, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington44 min
Jul 13, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade48 min
Jul 13, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson65 min
Jul 13, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington63 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.