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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Rapid City, SD

January 7, 20135 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Jan 7, 2013, 2:29 PM MST for 5 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Jan 8, 2013, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 2013, 2:29 PM MST (21:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 8, 2013, 5:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 8, 2013, 1:27 PM MST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

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

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 12:00Z on 2013-01-07Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2013-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -146 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 2:38 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchUNRButte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more12 hr
Jan 7, 2:29 PM MSTWind AdvisoryUNRBennett, Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence, Mellette and 4 more23 hr

Nearby

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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.