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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Rapid City, SD

April 10, 20115 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Apr 10, 2011, 3:50 AM MDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Apr 10, 2011, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 2011, 3:50 AM MDT (09:50 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 10, 2011, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Apr 10, 2011, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 363 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 2011-04-10Temperature 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 2011-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -54 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.