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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2016, 5:54 PM MDT for Harding County, Perkins County, South Dakota. It was in force for 66 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 9, 2016, 5:54 PM MDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harding County, SD, Perkins County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 9, 5:29 PM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 5:29 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 WYZ054-056-058-071-101300- NORTHERN CAMPBELL-WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IT WILL BE HOT...DRY...AND WINDY ON SUNDAY, RESULTING IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .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 WYZ055-101300- SOUTHERN CAMPBELL- 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL RESULT IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IT WILL BE HOT...DRY...AND WINDY ON SUNDAY, RESULTING IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .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 SDZ024-028-029-WYZ057-101300- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS- WYOMING BLACK HILLS- 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA...AND THE BLACK HILLS OF WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IT WILL BE HOT...DRY...AND WINDY ON SUNDAY, RESULTING IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .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 SDZ025>027-030-031-041>043-072-074-101300- NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-RAPID CITY-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS- CUSTER CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-OGLALA LAKOTA- JACKSON-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS- 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IT WILL BE HOT...DRY...AND WINDY ON SUNDAY, RESULTING IN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .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 SDZ014-032-044-046-047-049-101300- ZIEBACH-HAAKON-BENNETT-MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP- 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 /446 AM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HOT...DRY..AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL PUT THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INDEX IN THE VERY HIGH TO EXTREME CATEGORY ON SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .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 SDZ001-002-012-013-073-101300- HARDING-PERKINS-BUTTE-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- 346 AM MDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY HOT...DRY..AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL PUT THE GRASSLAND FIRE DANGER INDEX IN THE VERY HIGH TO EXTREME CATEGORY ON SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. .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 8, 8:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | 27 min | |
| Jul 8, 11:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Butte | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 11:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 4:00 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | UNR | 42 hr | |
| Jul 9, 2:11 PM MDT | Heat Advisory | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Mellette, Todd, Tripp, Ziebach | 28 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | 52 min | |
| Jul 9, 3:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Lawrence | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 3:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 4:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Butte | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Meade | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Oglala Lakota | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Campbell | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 9:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Campbell | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 9:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Campbell | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 9:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 9:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 9:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 10:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 4:00 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | UNR | 16 hr |
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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.