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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Rapid City, SD

April 19, 2006Butte County, Harding County, Lawrence County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this blizzard warning at Apr 19, 2006, 10:07 AM MDT for Butte County, Harding County, Lawrence County, South Dakota. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2006, 10:07 AM MDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2006, 8:12 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blizzard 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 blizzard warning went out at Apr 18, 2:25 PM MDT, 19 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 2:25 PM MDT, 19 hours 42 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
Apr 19, 4:22 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Haakon, Perkins, Ziebach	8 hr

Nearby

Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota, 2006 Blizzard Warnings in Wyoming, 2006 Every blizzard warning in 2006

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.