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Wind Advisory 23, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 18, 20076 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Jun 18, 2007, 4:53 AM MDT for 6 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Jun 18, 2007, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 2007, 4:53 AM MDT (10:53 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 18, 2007, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired
Jun 18, 2007, 6:21 PM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 261 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2007-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2169 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2007-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -49 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1314 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jun 18, 3:00 AM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:00 AM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
300 AM MDT MON JUN 18 2007

.DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW SPINNING ALONG CANADIAN/MT/ND BORDER THIS
MORNING. SHORTWAVE ROTATING THOUGH TROF BRINGING MOISTURE ACROSS ERN
MT WHILE ANOTHER WAVE HAS DEVELOPED AT LEADING EDGE OF JET STREAK
OVER CENTRAL WY WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS ACROSS NERN
WY...BLACK HILLS...AND NWRN SD. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW WEAK
INSTABILITY...BUT DONT THINK THUNDER WILL BE MUCH OF A CONCERN.
LARGE PRECIP BAND AHEAD OF LOW IS FINALLY MOVING EASTWARD...WITH
THUNDERSTORMS EXITING SERN CORNER OF FORECAST AREA. SURFACE COLD
FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA WITH STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT
BEHIND IT...AND COMBINED WITH GOOD MIXING...WINDS SHOULD REACH
ADVISORY CRITERIA OVER NWRN SD TOWARD RAPID CITY AREA. AFTER SHOWERS
CLEAR LATE TODAY...MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES FOR TUES...WITH POTENTIAL FOR
THUNDERSTORMS TUES NIGHT OVER FAR SRN SD AS LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES.
UPPER RIDGE FLATTENS AS A SHORT WAVE CROSSES THE AREA AND LEE TROF
DEVELOPS WED FOR MORE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA. TEMPS WILL BE A BIT COOLER TODAY...THEN START WARMING DURING
THE WEEK.

EXTENDED...MEDIUM/LONG RANGE GUIDANCE STARTING TO SHOW SIGNAL FOR
PROLONGED 90 DEGREE TEMPERATURES FOR THE END OF THE WEEK INTO NEXT
WEEKEND...AS UPPER LEVEL/THERMAL RIDGE BECOMES ENTRENCHED OVER THE
CWA. FLY IN OINTMENT IS RECENT RAINS AND MOIST GROUND. SO WILL GO
SOMEWHAT CONSERVATIVE WITH TEMPERATURES...BUT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED
IF NEED ARISES TO RAISE ANOTHER 5-10 DEGREES FOR THE END OF THE
WEEK. RIDGE RIDERS WILL BRING CHANCE -TSRA TO PERIPHERY OF THERMAL
RIDGE...BUT MAY END UP BEING CAPPED BY LATE IN THE WEEK.

&&

.AVIATION...A SECONDARY COLD FRONT WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS TO
THE SD PLAINS TODAY. A FEW SHOWERS MAY OCCUR...BUT OTHERWISE
VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED.

&&

.UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...NONE.
WY...NONE.

&&

SANDERS/HELEGSON
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 10:39 AM MDT, 18 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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
Jun 18, 11:22 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningUNRHarding, Perkins3 hr

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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.