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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 308

June 17, 201514 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 2015, 5:39 PM MDT for 14 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2015, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2015, 3:00 AM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Pennington42 min
Jun 17, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Pennington24 min
Jun 17, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell55 min
Jun 17, 8:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell, Crook59 min
Jun 17, 8:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell, Crook67 min
Jun 17, 8:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Lawrence62 min
Jun 17, 9:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR24 min
Jun 17, 9:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook, Weston39 min
Jun 17, 9:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningUNRCampbell, Crook5 hr
Jun 17, 9:13 PM MDTTornado WarningUNRLawrence32 min
Jun 17, 9:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Meade, Pennington64 min
Jun 17, 9:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRWeston41 min
Jun 17, 10:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningUNRWeston3 hr
Jun 17, 10:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington52 min
Jun 17, 10:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR33 min
Jun 17, 10:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster47 min
Jun 17, 10:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Meade, Pennington61 min
Jun 17, 10:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR39 min
Jun 17, 11:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Fall River44 min
Jun 17, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett39 min
Jun 18, 12:06 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR39 min
Jun 18, 12:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett, Jackson60 min
Jun 18, 12:52 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett, Jackson38 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 2:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBig Horn, Carbon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Powder River, Stillwater and 3 more118 min
Jun 17, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBig Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud and 1 more5 hr
Jun 16, 6:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBennett, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Todd and 1 more86 min
Jun 17, 4:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGoshen, Laramie, Platte55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wyoming, 2015Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.