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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 3, 2016Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2016, 3:50 PM MDT for Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 22 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
Jul 3, 2016, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2016, 4:12 PM MDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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 12:00Z on 2016-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2016-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-396 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 3, 1:39 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 1:39 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 4:17 AM MDT, 11 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
417 AM MDT SUN JUL 3 2016

SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-072>074-WYZ054>058-071-041400-
HARDING-PERKINS-BUTTE-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-ZIEBACH-
NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-RAPID CITY-
SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-
CUSTER CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-HAAKON-FALL RIVER-
OGLALA LAKOTA-JACKSON-BENNETT-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-
SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-
SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-WESTERN CROOK-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-WESTON-
NORTHEASTERN CROOK-
417 AM MDT SUN JUL 3 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS
OF SOUTH DAKOTA...WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHEAST WYOMING...AND
THE BLACK HILLS OF WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY
OVER FAR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BRING NEAR DAILY CHANCES OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...BUT
WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...
OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY

SDZ046-047-049-041400-
MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP-
517 AM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BRING NEAR DAILY CHANCES OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE
POSSIBLE...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS
TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT 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, Jul 3, 2:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 11:54 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington36 min
Jul 3, 12:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington35 min
Jul 3, 12:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington57 min
Jul 3, 12:43 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryUNRPennington2 hr
Jul 3, 12:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington53 min
Jul 3, 1:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington52 min
Jul 3, 1:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington30 min
Jul 3, 2:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRLawrence51 min
Jul 3, 2:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington49 min
Jul 3, 2:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington32 min
Jul 3, 2:48 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningUNRPennington6 hr
Jul 3, 3:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington31 min
Jul 3, 3:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRLawrence52 min
Jul 3, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPennington64 min
Jul 3, 3:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPerkins33 min
Jul 3, 4:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRMeade45 min
Jul 3, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Pennington41 min
Jul 3, 4:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRFall River30 min
Jul 3, 4:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPerkins27 min
Jul 3, 4:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRCuster24 min
Jul 3, 4:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRCuster37 min
Jul 3, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins59 min
Jul 3, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River, Oglala Lakota53 min
Jul 3, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Oglala Lakota, Pennington59 min
Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPerkins45 min
Jul 3, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNROglala Lakota46 min
Jul 3, 5:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins, Ziebach34 min
Jul 3, 5:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNROglala Lakota28 min
Jul 3, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins, Ziebach31 min
Jul 3, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNROglala Lakota49 min
Jul 2, 7:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRCrook44 min
Jul 2, 7:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRCrook40 min

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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.