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High Wind Warning 6, NWS Rapid City, SD

September 27, 20099 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Sep 27, 2009, 2:36 AM MDT for 9 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Sep 27, 2009, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 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
Sep 27, 2009, 2:36 AM MDT (08:36 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 27, 2009, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired
Sep 27, 2009, 5:57 PM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 27, 2:10 AM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 2:10 AM MDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
210 AM MDT SUN SEP 27 2009

.DISCUSSION...AT 08Z SFC MAP SHOWS CDFNT NOW MVG THRU MONTANA
AND SHOULD PUSH INTO NWRN SD IN NEXT FEW HOURS. ALOFT...NW
FLOW CONTS ACRS THE REGION WITH S/W MVG INTO NERN MONTANA.
SKIES ARE CLEAR ACRS THE REGION WITH TEMPS IN THE 50S TO ARD
60.

TODAY...CDFNT WILL PUSH ACRS REGION. STG CAA WILL COMBINE WITH
4-6MB/3HR PRESSURE RISES BEHIND FRONT AND 850MB WINDS INCREASING
TO 35-40 KTS WILL PRODUCE STG NW WINDS ACRS WRN SD PLAINS. WILL
GO WITH HWW ON PLAINS MAINLY FROM I-90 NORTH FOR WINDS 35-45 KTS
WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. WILL CONTINUE WIND ADVISORY ACRS SRN AND
SOUTH CENTRAL SD FOR WINDS OF 25-40 MPH WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 50
MPH. AIRMASS IS QUITE DRY SO EXPECT NO PCPN WITH FRONT.

TONIGHT...WINDS WILL DIMINISH QUICKLY THIS EVENING WITH CLEAR
SKIES AND COOL TEMPS. MOST AREAS WILL DROP INTO 30S...THOUGH
SOME 20S LIKELY IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF BLK HLS.

MONDAY...UPPER RIDGE WILL QUICKLY BUILD BACK INTO THE NRN PLAINS
WITH RETURN FLOW DEVELOPING ACROSS AREA. THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF
SUNSHINE WITH HIGHS IN MID 60S TO LOWER 70S.

MONDAY NITE...SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR WITH SEASONAL TEMPS.

TUESDAY...SE RETURN FLOW WILL INCREASE WITH TEMPS INCREASING INTO
70S OVER ALL AREAS EXCEPT BLK HILLS WHERE HIGHS WILL BE AGAIN IN
60S. ANOTHER NICE DAY WITH PLENTY OF SUNSHINE.

TUESDAY NIGHT...UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO MORE EAST AS UPPER FLOW
TURNS SW. SE WINDS WILL BEGIN TO TURN S-SW ACRS NERN WY AND FAR
WRN SD.

EXTENDED...DEEP UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL SLOWLY APPROACH THE AREA ON
WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR
PRECIPITATION...PARTICULARLY IN THE EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SLIDES
THROUGH. TEMPERATURES PROFILES WILL BE COLD ENOUGH TO POSSIBLY
RESULT IN SOME SNOW OVER THE BLACK HILLS AND NORTHEAST WYO. GUSTY
NORTHWEST WINDS INCREASE ON THURSDAY BRINGING COOLER TEMPERATURES
IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT WITH CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION CONTINUING
AS THE TROF CONTINUES ITS APPROACH. PRECIP WILL TAPER OFF FROM WEST
TO EAST THURSDAY NIGHT AND END BY FRIDAY AS THE TROF SLIDES TO THE
EAST.

&&

.AVIATION...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACRS THE AREA TODAY
IN THE WAKE OF A PASSING COLD FRONT. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE
OVER THE PLAINS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...WHERE
GUSTS OVER 50 KTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE WINDS WILL START TAPERING
OFF LATE THIS AFTERNOON.  OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED.

&&

.UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...WIND ADVISORY FROM 11 AM MDT /NOON CDT/ TO 6 PM MDT /7 PM
     CDT/SUNDAY FOR BENNETT-JACKSON-MELLETTE-SHANNON-TODD-TRIPP.

     HIGH WIND WARNING FROM 6 AM TO 6 PM MDT SUNDAY FOR BUTTE-
     HARDING-PERKINS.

     HIGH WIND WARNING FROM 8 AM TO 6 PM MDT SUNDAY FOR CUSTER CO
     PLAINS-HAAKON-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-NORTHERN FOOTHILLS-NORTHERN
     MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-RAPID CITY-SOUTHERN
     MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-ZIEBACH.

WY...NONE.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 26, 1:50 PM MDT, 12 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 2:34 PM MDTFrost AdvisoryUNRButte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade and 3 more17 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2009Every high wind warning in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.