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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Rapid City, SD

September 2, 20117 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Sep 2, 2011, 6:09 PM MDT for 7 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Sep 2, 2011, 9:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 2011, 6:09 PM MDT (00:09 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 2, 2011, 9:00 PM MDT
Expired
Sep 3, 2011, 5:11 AM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 357 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2011-09-03Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2011-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Sep 2, 1:14 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 1:14 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 5:29 AM MDT, 12 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
529 AM MDT FRI SEP 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-
529 AM MDT (629 AM CDT) FRI SEP 2 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE BLACK HILLS AND NORTHWEST
SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON...WITH CHANCES SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE
REMAINDER OF WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA TONIGHT.
ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...AN ISOLATED
STORM OR TWO MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL OR STRONG WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER INTO SATURDAY MORNING OVER SOUTH
CENTRAL INTO PARTS OF SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED.

.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
Sep 2, 10:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Pennington38 min
Sep 2, 10:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Pennington63 min
Sep 2, 11:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Mellette58 min
Sep 3, 12:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd62 min
Sep 3, 2:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd38 min

Nearby

Wind Advisories in South Dakota, 2011Every wind advisory 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.