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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

March 26, 2004Meade County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2004, 2:20 PM MST for Meade County, South Dakota. It was in force for 55 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
Mar 26, 2004, 2:20 PM MST (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2004, 3:15 PM MST
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 26, 2:10 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

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 Mar 26, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 9:30 AM MST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 6:30 AM MST, 7 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
630 AM MST FRI MAR 26 2004

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-271400-
BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON-
HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK-
NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-
NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY-
SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-
SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP-
WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH-
630 AM MST (730 AM CST) FRI MAR 26 2004

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 WESTERN
AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN WYOMING ...THE
NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...AND THE BLACK HILLS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A
STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
GENERALLY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST...AND AS THE STORMS TAP INTO THE
MOIST AIRMASS OVER WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...SOME OF THE STORMS MAY
BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH NORTHWESTERN
SOUTH DAKOTA AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
DURING THE EVENING.

 .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 26, 1:41 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington49 min
Mar 26, 3:19 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade56 min
Mar 26, 4:08 PM MSTTornado WarningUNRMeade67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.