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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 620

August 19, 200717 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 2007, 8:37 PM MDT for 17 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 2007, 8:37 PM MDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 2007, 2:06 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 9:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster24 min
Aug 19, 9:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington53 min

Discussions around it

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 7:46 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Butte, Harding, Jackson, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 1 more59 min
Aug 19, 9:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Butte, Harding, Jackson, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 1 more61 min
Aug 20, 1:03 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Haakon and 12 more57 min
Aug 20, 2:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Lincoln, Union, Yankton117 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.