Alert archive / South Dakota / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 25, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2012, 3:46 AM MDT for 7 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Apr 27, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2012, 3:46 AM MDT (09:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2012, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2012, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
Counties Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 516 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
Nearby
Wind Advisories in South Dakota, 2012Every wind advisory in 2012
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.