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Wind Advisory 27, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 7, 20124 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at May 7, 2012, 2:39 AM MDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at May 7, 2012, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 2012, 2:39 AM MDT (08:39 UTC)
In effect from
May 7, 2012, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 7, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2012-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2012-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.