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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

January 7, 201310 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Jan 7, 2013, 2:29 PM MST for 10 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Jan 8, 2013, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 hr.

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 Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 91 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 309 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, Aberdeen, SD 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2013-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -271 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
1766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-157 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 MSTHigh Wind WarningUNRButte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach23 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.