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Wind Advisory 25, NWS Rapid City, SD

April 27, 20127 counties in South Dakota

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2012-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 35 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2012-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.