Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 409

June 17, 200710 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 2007, 3:08 PM MDT for 10 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2007, 3:08 PM MDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2007, 8:57 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster42 min
Jun 17, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington55 min
Jun 17, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade66 min
Jun 17, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade48 min
Jun 17, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington55 min
Jun 17, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach23 min
Jun 17, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon62 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 389 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 263 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-591 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
303 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 9:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButte, Custer, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade and 3 more97 min
Jun 17, 2:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Brule, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Corson and 24 more97 min
Jun 17, 3:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd, Tripp7 hr
Jun 17, 3:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Campbell, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hughes and 6 more91 min
Jun 17, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more7 hr
Jun 17, 5:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Brown, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Custer and 22 more94 min
Jun 16, 6:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCampbell, Crook, Johnson, Sheridan, Weston91 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wyoming, 2007Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007

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.