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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2016, 6:01 PM MDT for Haakon County, Jackson County, Mellette County, South Dakota. It was in force for 59 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 6, 2016, 6:01 PM MDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Mellette County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:21 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 6, 5:48 PM MDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 5:48 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1145 AM MDT WED JUL 6 2016 SDZ031-032-042>044-046-047-049-073-071300- PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-HAAKON-OGLALA LAKOTA-JACKSON-BENNETT- MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP-SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- 1145 AM MDT WED JUL 6 2016 /1245 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM THE BLACK HILLS EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE ARE PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PERIOD. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED 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 SDZ012>014-024>030-041-072-074-WYZ056>058-071-071300- 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- FALL RIVER-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS- WESTERN CROOK-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-WESTON-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- 1145 AM MDT WED JUL 6 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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING AN ENHANCED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM THE BLACK HILLS EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE ARE PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PERIOD. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED 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 SDZ001-002-WYZ054-055-071300- HARDING-PERKINS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL- 1145 AM MDT WED JUL 6 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE ARE PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PERIOD. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED 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
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Perkins, Ziebach | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 7:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Mellette | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 7:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Lyman | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 8:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Weston | 63 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.