Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2003, 3:22 PM MDT for Ziebach County, South Dakota. It was in force for 53 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 21, 2003, 3:22 PM MDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2003, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ziebach 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 1:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 21, 3:04 PM MDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:04 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 304 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003 MAIN CONCERN FOR NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL BE SEVERE WX RISK AS SERIES OF SHRTWVS AND SURF BOUNDARY LINGER ACROSS THE AREA. UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER SOUTHERN AB WILL CONTINUE TO SPIN SHRTWV ENERGY ACROSS THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND NORTHERN PLAINS. RIGHT NOW...STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE SLOW MOVING FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTHEAST WY AND NORTHWEST SD. LARGE HAIL IS THE MAIN THREAT...BUT BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS AND FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED NEAR GCC WITH A STRONG SUPERCELL RIDING THE BOUNDARY. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NEAR AND ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS IT MOVES SLOWLY EAST LATE THIS AFT AND EVE. OTHER STORMS WILL ALSO MOVE INTO THE AREA WITH ANOTHER SHRTWV MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN WY. FOR TOMORROW...BOUNDARY WILL STALL ACROSS THE DAKOTAS AND IS EXPECTED TO RETROGRADE WESTWARD A BIT DURING THE DAY AND BE THE FOCUS FOR MORE POTENTIALLY STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFT AND EVE. AREA FOR SEVERE WX POTENTIAL SHOULD BE FROM THE BLACK HILLS AND EASTWARD. UPPER LOW MOVES WELL NORTH OF REGION MONDAY...BUT ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE GREAT BASIN AREA AND CONTINUES TO BRING WEAK DISTURBANCES ACROSS THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS. AS SYSTEM MOVES CLOSER BY MIDWEEK...TEMPS WILL COOL TO BELOW NORMAL LEVELS TUE AND WED. NOT BITING COMPLETELY ON VERY COOL GFS...BUT HAVE CONTINUED TO TREND TEMPS DOWN A BIT. THE LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK LOOKS DRY AND PROGRESSIVELY WARMER AS WEAK RIDGING BUILDS INTO THE AREA. .UNR...NONE. ST
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 6:59 AM MDT, 8 hours 23 minutes before
SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-221230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 659 AM MDT SAT JUN 21 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 NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME STRONGER STORMS MAY BECOME ORGANIZED AND PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4 INCH DIAMETER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A DAILY CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS SATURDAY AS A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. 99
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 2:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
214 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0143 PM 15 WNW GILLETTE WY TORNADO
06/21/03 CAMPBELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0155 PM 8 W GILLETTE WY TORNADO
06/21/03 CAMPBELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
TORNADO WAS ON THE
GROUND EARLIER, AND
BROKE UP AROUND 155 PM
MDT.
0204 PM 8 W GILLETTE WY 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03 CAMPBELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0209 PM GILLETTE WY 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03 CAMPBELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL ON
NORTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN.
BunkersLocal storm report, Jun 21, 2:31 PM MDT, 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 49 min | |
| Jun 20, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 65 min |
| Jun 21, 1:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 2:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Perkins | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 67 min |
| Jun 21, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Meade | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 1:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Campbell | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 2:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Campbell | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 2:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Crook | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.