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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 11, 2007Bennett County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2007, 5:00 PM MDT for Bennett County, South Dakota. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 11, 2007, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2007, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Whole counties

County Bennett County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 114 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 2007-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 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
114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-470 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 11, 1:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:28 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchUNRBennett, Haakon, Jackson, Mellette, Todd, Tripp and 1 more40 hr
Jun 11, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett77 min
Jun 11, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson71 min
Jun 11, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR50 min
Jun 11, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade74 min
Jun 11, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon75 min
Jun 11, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR45 min
Jun 11, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson55 min
Jun 11, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach62 min
Jun 11, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett76 min
Jun 11, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade46 min
Jun 11, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR50 min
Jun 11, 5:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson, Mellette57 min
Jun 11, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach65 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Dakota, 2007Every flash flood warning 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.