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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 2, 2011Bennett County, Jackson County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2011, 7:17 PM MDT for Bennett County, Jackson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 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 2, 2011, 7:17 PM MDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2011, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Bennett County, SD, Jackson County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 2011-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 854 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2011-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.3

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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 2, 2:47 PM MDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:47 PM MDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 6:46 AM MDT, 12 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
646 AM MDT THU JUN 2 2011

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-031300-
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-
646 AM MDT (746 AM CDT) THU JUN 2 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER FAR
NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

FOR THIS EVENING...THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN WYOMING INTO NORTHWESTERN THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS EVENING...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM LEMMON TO MARTIN.
LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson, Pennington63 min
Jun 2, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Pennington82 min
Jun 2, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Mellette65 min
Jun 2, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins, Ziebach39 min
Jun 2, 10:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRZiebach21 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 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.