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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 21, 2003Todd County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2003, 9:23 PM CDT for Todd County, South Dakota. It was in force for 37 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, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Todd County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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, 8:50 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 8:50 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 7:59 AM CDT, 13 hours 24 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.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
524 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0410 PM    FAITH                     SD   2.5 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   MEADE                          CONSIDERABLE BROKEN
                                          WINDOWS IN FAITH.
                                          REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0415 PM    16 W DUPREE               SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   ZIEBACH                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0447 PM    SPEARFISH                 SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   LAWRENCE                       DIME TO QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL 1 TO 2 INCHES DEEP
                                          COVERING PARTS OF
                                          INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN
                                          SUNDANCE AND SPEARFISH.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0454 PM    4 S BELLE FOURCHE         SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   BUTTE                          GROUND COMPLETELY
                                          COVERED WITH HAIL.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0500 PM    ST ONGE                   SD   1.5 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0500 PM    SPEARFISH                 SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0503 PM    ST ONGE                   SD   1 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Bunkers

Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
528 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    6 NW SUNDANCE             WY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   CROOK                          LOTS OF HAIL ON GROUND.
                                          REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

0428 PM    2 W BEULAH                WY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   CROOK                          LOTS OF HAIL ON GROUND.
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0433 PM    8 W SPEARFISH             SD   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   LAWRENCE                       REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Bunkers

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

SDZ012-024>030-041-072-074-WYZ057-071-220200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
615 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR BUTTE...
LAWRENCE...CUSTER...FALL RIVER...AND WESTERN PENNINGTON COUNTIES IN
FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR MEADE...EASTERN PENNINGTON...SHANNON...ZIEBACH...HAAKON...
JACKSON...BENNETT...MELLETTE...TODD...AND TRIPP COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM
MDT.

BUNKERS

Local storm report, Jun 21, 7:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
639 PM MDT SAT JUN 21 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    3 SW VALE                 SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   BUTTE                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0530 PM    10 N STURGIS              SD   .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   MEADE                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

0625 PM    7 E FARMINGDALE           SD   .88 INCH HAIL
06/21/03   PENNINGTON                     REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Bunkers

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 8:37 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	46 min
Jun 21, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette	55 min
Jun 21, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Campbell	52 min
Jun 21, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook	57 min
Jun 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Campbell, Crook	63 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2003 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.