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High Wind Warning 10, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Apr 27, 2014, 9:23 PM MDT for Custer County, Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 27, 2014, 9:23 PM MDT (03:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2014, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
Counties Custer County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Apr 27, 8:30 PM MDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 8:30 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 638 AM MDT SUN APR 27 2014 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-281300- BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON- HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS- NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY- SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP- WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH- 638 AM MDT (738 AM CDT) SUN APR 27 2014 ...WINTER STORM WATCH OVER THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BLACK HILLS TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... ...HIGH WIND WATCH OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA ON MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A POTENT SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA TODAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL LOOK POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. THIS STORM SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BRING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS TO MUCH OF THE AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS HEAVY RAINFALL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE FLOODING. COLDER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TONIGHT...BRINGING THE POSSIBILITY FOR SNOWFALL ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BLACK HILLS. SIX INCHES OR MORE OF SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE BLACK HILLS TONIGHT...WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES ON THE WYOMING PLAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE ALSO LOOKING MORE LIKELY ON PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING...WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE THERE. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE SOUTH DAKOTA PLAINS EAST OF THE BLACK HILLS MONDAY. THIS INCLUDES THE RAPID CITY AREA. THERE STILL REMAINS SOME UNCERTAINTY WITH REGARD TO THE TRACK OF THIS SYSTEM...PARTICULARLY THE AMOUNT OF COLD AIR EXPECTED INTO THE AREA...WHICH WILL HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON SNOW AMOUNTS. HOWEVER...WITH SOIL CONDITIONS JUST BELOW THE SURFACE SATURATED IN SOME AREAS FROM THE MOISTURE IN OCTOBER...THE SNOW MELT OCCURRING AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS...AND THE NORMALLY DRY CREEKS ALREADY FULL...THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING FROM THIS SYSTEM OVER PARTS OF THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES... OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 27, 6:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
620 PM MDT SUN APR 27 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0600 PM SNOW 2 SSE DEERFIELD RESERVO 43.99N 103.78W
04/27/2014 E4.0 INCH PENNINGTON SD TRAINED SPOTTER
SNOW SINCE 100PM. THE SNOW HAS STOPPED FOR NOW.
&&
MSMITHLocal storm report, Apr 27, 8:30 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:33 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | UNR | Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Mellette and 5 more | 19 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:43 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | UNR | Bennett, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Mellette and 4 more | 9 hr |
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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.