Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD
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.
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2:10 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:41 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 3:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 56 min |
| Mar 26, 4:08 PM MST | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 67 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.