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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Rapid City, SD

October 15, 201216 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind watch at Oct 15, 2012, 3:04 AM MDT for 16 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Oct 17, 2012, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2012, 3:04 AM MDT (09:04 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2012, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2012, 3:39 AM MDT
In force
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, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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.

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 Oct 15, 2:57 AM MDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 2:57 AM MDT, 7 minutes before
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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.