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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Mar 28, 2015, 2:57 AM MDT for 12 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Mar 28, 2015, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 18 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
- Mar 28, 2015, 2:57 AM MDT (08:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2015, 3:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2015, 9:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 1538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 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 Mar 28, 2:51 AM MDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 2:51 AM MDT, 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2:57 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | UNR | Fall River, Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 31 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2015High Wind Warnings in Wyoming, 2015Every high wind warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.