Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 718
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 7, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT for 11 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2004, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Todd County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 64 min |
| Aug 7, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones | 58 min |
| Aug 7, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 7:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 33 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Corson, Dewey, Haakon, Harding, Meade and 4 more | 88 min |
| Aug 7, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Corson, Dewey, Harding, Perkins, Ziebach | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harding, Perkins | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 5:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Walworth | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.