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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 4, 2012Mellette County, Todd County, Tripp County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2012, 6:28 AM CDT for Mellette County, Todd County, Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2012, 6:28 AM CDT (11:28 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2012, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 1775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 4, 4:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 4:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 3:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
248 AM MDT FRI MAY 4 2012

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-051400-
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-
248 AM MDT (348 AM CDT) FRI MAY 4 2012

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS  THE
FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS AND
LARGE HAIL POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY
NIGHT...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 3:32 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 4:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 5:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 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 4, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	43 min
May 4, 4:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	42 min
May 4, 5:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	44 min
May 4, 5:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	38 min
May 4, 5:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson, Mellette, Todd	58 min
May 4, 6:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	39 min
May 4, 7:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Tripp	26 min
May 4, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Mellette	45 min
May 4, 8:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Mellette	41 min
May 4, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Tripp	93 min

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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.