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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 3, 2014Bennett County, Todd County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2014, 5:07 PM MDT for Bennett County, Todd County, South Dakota. It was in force for 53 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: Jun 3, 2014, 5:07 PM MDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2014, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Bennett County, SD, Todd County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 3:15 AM MDT, 13 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
315 AM MDT TUE JUN 3 2014

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058-
071-041300-
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-
315 AM MDT (415 AM CDT) TUE JUN 3 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND
NORTHEASTERN WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER MANY PARTS OF THE AREA TODAY INTO
TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE...PARTICULARLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BUFFALO TO
PHILIP. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WHILE SOME DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. ALSO...THERE WILL BE A THREAT FOR A
TORNADO THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING...PARTICULARLY OVER
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA CLOSE TO THE NEBRASKA
BORDER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. THERE
IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...
PARTICULARLY OVER WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.

CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THOUGH
MONDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...
THOUGH A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS
WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

&&

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, Jun 3, 11:15 AM MDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:03 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:46 PM MDT, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:42 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	63 min
Jun 3, 3:31 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	59 min
Jun 3, 3:32 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	58 min
Jun 3, 3:48 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	42 min
Jun 3, 4:23 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	67 min
Jun 3, 5:07 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	38 min
Jun 3, 6:00 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Meade	45 min
Jun 3, 8:08 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson, Pennington	67 min
Jun 3, 8:58 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Todd	62 min
Jun 3, 9:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson, Mellette	38 min
Jun 3, 9:32 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Todd	58 min
Jun 3, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	46 min
Jun 3, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Pennington	36 min
Jun 3, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Todd, Tripp	44 min
Jun 3, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook, Weston	66 min
Jun 3, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Weston	24 min
Jun 3, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook, Weston	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.