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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

January 27, 20084 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Jan 27, 2008, 2:48 AM MST for 4 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Jan 27, 2008, 11:51 AM MST. It was in force for 23 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 27, 2008, 2:48 AM MST (09:48 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 27, 2008, 11:51 AM MST
Expired
Jan 28, 2008, 10:40 AM MST
In force
23 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Custer County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 00:00Z on 2008-01-27Temperature 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 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 00:00Z on 2008-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
3286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 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 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 27, 2:22 AM MST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 2:22 AM MST, 26 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 26, 5:00 AM MST, 21 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
500 AM MST SAT JAN 26 2008

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-271400-
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-
500 AM MST (600 AM CST) SAT JAN 26 2008

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SOUTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT OVER
PARTS OF THE NORTHERN BLACK HILLS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL AGAIN GUST TO AROUND 45 MPH SUNDAY NIGHT AND
EARLY MONDAY MORNING OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BLACK HILLS.

STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS...MUCH COLDER AIR...AND SOME LIGHT SNOW WILL
INVADE THE AREA MONDAY...AS AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT RACES ACROSS THE
REGION. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY...AND THE WINDS
WILL PRODUCE BLOWING SNOW AND LOW WIND CHILL VALUES MONDAY AFTERNOON
AND MONDAY NIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE PLAINS NORTH AND EAST OF THE
BLACK HILLS. THE COLD AIR IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE MIDDLE
OF NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

BUNKERS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 9:22 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchUNRLawrence, Meade, Pennington5 hr

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.