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Wind Advisory 25, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 29, 20145 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Jun 29, 2014, 2:45 AM MDT for 5 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Jun 29, 2014, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2014, 2:45 AM MDT (08:45 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 29, 2014, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 6:04 PM MDT
In force: 9 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 08:48 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 00:00Z, 8.8 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-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: 34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jun 29, 2:44 AM MDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:44 AM MDT, 1 minute 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 28, 6:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Haakon	56 min
Jun 28, 6:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	39 min
Jun 29, 2:58 PM MDT	High Wind Watch	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins	12 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.