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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2003, 4:36 PM MDT for Bennett County, South Dakota. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2003, 4:36 PM MDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bennett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
988 WFUS53 KUNR 052236 TORUNR SDC007-052315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 436 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RAPID CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BENNETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA * UNTIL 515 PM MDT * AT 433 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF VETAL...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARTIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VETAL AND TUTHILL AROUND 450 PM MDT... HARRINGTON AROUND 500 PM MDT... ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES EAST OF THE LACREEK WILDLIFE REFUGE...MOVING SLOWLY EAST. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. MOVE QUICKLY TO A STURDY INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. ABANDON YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME FOR A STRONGER SHELTER. LAT...LON 4340 10124 4339 10172 4299 10144 4299 10119 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 12:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 34 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, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 64 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.