Alert archive / South Dakota / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Jan 4, 2008, 1:59 PM MST for 4 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Jan 4, 2008, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for 14 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
- Jan 4, 2008, 1:59 PM MST (20:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2008, 8:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2008, 10:24 AM MST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
Counties Custer County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 387 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 4, 1:31 PM MST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 1:31 PM MST, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 4, 3:28 AM MST, 10 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 328 AM MST FRI JAN 4 2008 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-051400- 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- 328 AM MST (428 AM CST) FRI JAN 4 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WYOMING THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT. WINDS OF 30-40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ARE LIKELY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE AROUND WRIGHT AND THE ROCHELLE HILLS AREA WHERE WIND GUSTS MAY APPROACH 60 MPH. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL ALSO DEVELOP ACROSS THE BLACK HILLS OVERNIGHT...WITH WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE ALONG THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN SLOPES OF THE BLACK HILLS...WHERE WIND GUSTS COULD APPROACH 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND THE BLACK HILLS. WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2008High Wind Warnings in Wyoming, 2008Every high wind warning in 2008
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.