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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 28, 2005Bennett County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 2005, 5:48 PM MDT for Bennett County, South Dakota. It was in force for 57 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: Jun 28, 2005, 5:48 PM MDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2005, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bennett County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:45 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -447 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 28, 2:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 6:56 AM MDT, 10 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:33 PM MDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 6:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett	56 min
Jun 27, 8:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Todd	53 min
Jun 28, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	34 min
Jun 28, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	64 min
Jun 28, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon	59 min
Jun 28, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	53 min
Jun 28, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett	64 min
Jun 28, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon	54 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.