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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 18, 20125 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind watch at May 18, 2012, 3:38 AM MDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at May 18, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2012, 3:38 AM MDT (09:38 UTC)
In effect from: May 18, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 18, 2012, 2:45 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at May 18, 2:58 AM MDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 2:58 AM MDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 5:20 AM MDT, 22 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 10:14 PM MDT, 5 hours 24 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
May 17, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Meade	45 min
May 17, 7:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR		50 min
May 18, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	41 min
May 18, 2:45 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	UNR	Butte, Custer, Meade, Pennington	12 hr
May 18, 2:45 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence and 5 more	20 hr
May 18, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Meade	46 min
May 18, 3:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	48 min
May 18, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	30 min
May 18, 4:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	33 min
May 18, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	36 min
May 18, 4:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	30 min
May 18, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	31 min
May 18, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	27 min
May 18, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson	56 min
May 18, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson	61 min
May 17, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Campbell	37 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.