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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2011, 7:11 PM MDT for 4 counties in South Dakota; Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2011, 7:11 PM MDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2011, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:24 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 157 days |
| Jun 24, 1:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 976 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 11.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 2:00 PM MDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:00 PM MDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 200 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2011 .DISCUSSION...CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACES BOUNDARY STRETCHING FROM CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA TOWARDS SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. UPPER LEVEL ANALYSIS PLACES LOW ALONG THE BRITISH COLUMBIA/ALBERTA BORDER. SHORT WAVE ROTATING AROUND THE LOW NOW PUSHING TOWARDS EASTERN WYOMING. TCU ALREADY STARTING TO BUILD OVER THE BLKHLS. FOR TODAY/TONIGHT...EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE WRN CWA THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE STARTING TO SHIFT EAST BY LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. AT THIS TIME APPEARS WILL BE AT LEAST TWO FLUSHES OF STORMS...FIRST ROUND COMING OFF THE BLKHLS AND SECOND ROUND WITH THE WAVE PUSHING TOWARDS EASTERN WYOMING. PLENTY OF INSTABILITY OVER THE CWA AS NOTED ON 18Z KUDX SOUNDING ALONG WITH 12Z NAM (1.5-3 KJ/KG) WITH DIMINISHING CAP AND AMPLE SHEAR TO SUPPORT ROTATING UPDRAFTS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS CONTINUE TO BE MAIN CONCERN...THOUGH THERE MAY BE A BRIEF TORNADIC THREAT LATE THIS AFT/EARLY THIS EVE WHEN STORMS INTERACT WITH AFOREMENTIONED SFC BOUNDARY. ON SATURDAY...UPPER LOW SLOWLY MEANDERS OVER ALBERTA THROUGH THE DAY...PUSHING INTO SASKATCHEWAN IN THE EVENING. SIMILAR SCENARIO AS TODAY EXPECTED OVER OUR AREA WITH WAVE ROTATING AROUND THE LOW PUSHING THROUGH. SHEAR STARTS OUT MODEST...THOUGH INCREASES THROUGH LATE AFT/EARLY EVE. WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY EXPECT SOME STORMS MAY HAVE SEVERE POTENTIAL. FOR SUNDAY...UPPER LOW OVER SASKATCHEWAN STARTS TO OPEN UP WITH TROF STRETCHING BACK INTO MONTANA/IDAHO. NEXT ROUND OF WAVES SLIDING AHEAD OF TROF START TO PUSH INTO OUR AREA. COLD FRONT STARTS TO SLIDE INTO THE FAR NWRN CWA BY EARLY AFT. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW INCREASES BRINGING STRONG INSTABILITY. 0-6KM BULK SHEAR STRENGTHENS THROUGH THE DAY WITH NAM ADVERTISING VALUES IN THE 45-55KT RANGE. EXPECTING ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS WITH THIS SCENARIO...PARTICULARLY OVER SWRN/S CNTRL SD. EXTENDED...UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL CROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS MONDAY...WITH BANDS OF PRECIP EXITING THE FORECAST AREA AND SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES. AN UPPER RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY KEEPING DRY WEATHER OVER THE AREA THROUGH MIDWEEK. DRY SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW WILL BRING TEMPS WELL ABOVE AVERAGE. NEXT UPPER TROF MOVES TOWARD THE PLAINS THURSDAY...AND ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT CROSSING THE AREA...WILL PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS. && .AVIATION...STORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA INTO THE EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. VFR CONDITIONS ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED...BUT MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY AROUND STRONGER STORMS. && .UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. WY...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 1:10 PM MDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 110 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2011 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-251300- 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- 110 PM MDT (210 PM CDT) FRI JUN 24 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. THERE IS ALSO A MINIMAL THREAT FOR TORNADOES ACROSS FAR SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...IN THE VICINITY OF A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AN UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE AND BRING DAILY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS LOOK TO BE THIS WEEKEND. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 6:42 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
642 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0641 PM HAIL 4 NW JOHNSON SIDING 44.12N 103.50W
06/24/2011 E1.75 INCH PENNINGTON SD PUBLIC
&&
BUNKERSLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:43 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
643 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0635 PM HAIL 3 WNW NEMO 44.21N 103.55W
06/24/2011 E1.00 INCH LAWRENCE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
0635 PM TSTM WND GST SSW NEWELL 44.71N 103.42W
06/24/2011 E60.00 MPH BUTTE SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MERICKSOLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:45 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
645 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0645 PM HAIL 3 N JOHNSON SIDING 44.13N 103.43W
06/24/2011 M1.75 INCH PENNINGTON SD TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MERICKSOLocal storm report, Jun 24, 6:50 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence, Meade | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 96 min |
| Jun 24, 7:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | UNR | Custer, Meade, Pennington | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach | 88 min |
| Jun 24, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Jackson, Pennington | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Mellette | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 10:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Mellette | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011
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.