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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

May 6, 2014Campbell County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2014, 6:18 PM MDT for Campbell County, Wyoming. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 2014, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2014, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Campbell County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 217 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 2014-05-07Temperature 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2014-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 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
May 6, 8:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNR32 min
May 7, 3:39 AM MDTWinter Storm WarningUNRCuster, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington23 hr
May 7, 3:39 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryUNRCuster, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota, Pennington32 hr
May 6, 6:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRCampbell46 min
May 6, 7:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRWeston24 min

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.