Tornado Warning 9, NWS Rapid City, SD

Issued

Aug 2, 2004, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)

Expired

Aug 2, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Rapid City, SD

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

000 
WFUS53 KUNR 030127
TORUNR
SDC113-030215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
727 PM MDT MON AUG 2 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RAPID CITY
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SHANNON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 721 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 8
  MILES NORTHWEST OF MANDERSON...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTH OF PINE
  RIDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MANDERSON AROUND 740 PM MDT...
  PORCUPINE AROUND 755 PM MDT...
  WOUNDED KNEE AROUND 805 PM MDT...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...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.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4338 10242 4334 10268 4308 10246 4322 10214

$$

CARSTENS

NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Aug 2, 7:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
600 PM MDT MON AUG 2 2004

.DISCUSSION...UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL
11PM MDT.

&&

UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.SD...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL
      SOUTH DAKOTA UNTIL 11PM MDT.
.WY...NONE.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
659 AM MDT MON AUG 2 2004

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-031400-
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-
659 AM MDT (759 AM CDT) MON AUG 2 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 ALL OF
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON OVER THE
HIGHER TERRAIN AND THEN MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE SOUTH DAKOTA
PLAINS. LARGE HAIL WILL THE BE MAIN THREAT...WITH SOME DAMAGING
WINDS ALSO EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA TUESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE BOTH
POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.