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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 12, 2003Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2003, 1:32 PM MDT for Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 43 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 12, 2003, 1:32 PM MDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2003, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pennington County, SD

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 12, 10:40 AM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 10:40 AM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 6:00 AM MDT, 7 hours 32 minutes before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
600 AM MDT THU JUN 12 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS MORNING FROM
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING INTO SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. AS THE
ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...SOME THUNDERSTORMS
WILL DEVELOP FROM NORTHEASTERN WYOMING THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH
DAKOTA...GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 90. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY
BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING HAIL LARGER THAN 3/4
INCH AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH
THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER
TERRAIN OF NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ASSISTANCE MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING...THE BLACK HILLS...AND SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH
DAKOTA.

JOHNSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 1:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	59 min
Jun 12, 2:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer	39 min
Jun 12, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Campbell, Crook	58 min

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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.