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Wind Advisory 32, NWS Rapid City, SD

November 25, 201116 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Nov 25, 2011, 2:28 AM MST for 16 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Nov 25, 2011, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 25 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 2011, 2:28 AM MST (09:28 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 25, 2011, 2:00 PM MST
Expired: Nov 26, 2011, 3:03 PM MST
In force: 25 hr
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 319 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Nov 24, 10:29 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 10:29 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 25, 3:02 PM MST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 5 more	24 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in South Dakota, 2011 Every 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.