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Wind Advisory 9, NWS Rapid City, SD

February 24, 2007Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2007, 3:12 PM MST for Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 24, 2007, 3:12 PM MST (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Feb 24, 2007, 8:00 PM MST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 353 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-02-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 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 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 Feb 24, 11:00 AM MST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 11:00 AM MST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 24, 5:40 AM MST, 9 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
540 AM MST SAT FEB 24 2007

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-251400-
BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON-
HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK-
NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-
NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY-
SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-
SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP-
WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH-
540 AM MST (640 AM CST) SAT FEB 24 2007

...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR MELLETTE...TODD...AND
TRIPP COUNTIES...
...SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR
JACKSON AND BENNETT COUNTIES...
...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY FOR THE PENNINGTON AND SOUTHERN MEADE
COUNTY PLAINS...
...WIND ADVISORY TODAY FOR MUCH OF THE WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
PLAINS...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A STRONG STORM SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL
BRING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW TO SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA
TODAY AND TONIGHT. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 6
TO 12 INCHES BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION...GUSTY WINDS WILL
RESULT IN BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL OCCUR ACROSS MOST OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA
PLAINS TODAY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE ACROSS THE PENNINGTON
AND SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY PLAINS WHERE WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH
GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 24, 2:12 PM MST, 1 hour before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 3:41 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningUNRMeade, Pennington12 hr
Feb 24, 3:58 AM MSTSnow and Blowing Snow AdvisoryUNRBennett, Jackson16 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in South Dakota, 2007Every wind advisory 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.