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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 307, NWS Rapid City, SD

August 9, 2016Custer County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2016, 5:02 PM MDT for Custer County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 9, 2016, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Custer County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
Aug 9, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -373 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Aug 9, 1:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 1:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 6:51 AM MDT, 10 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 12:26 PM MDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 12:42 PM MDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 4:38 PM MDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 4:51 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	41 min
Aug 8, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Fall River, Oglala Lakota	60 min
Aug 8, 6:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	55 min
Aug 8, 7:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	49 min
Aug 8, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Oglala Lakota	46 min
Aug 8, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	91 min
Aug 8, 7:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Perkins, Ziebach	95 min
Aug 8, 9:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett, Mellette, Todd	55 min
Aug 9, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	39 min
Aug 9, 5:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	44 min
Aug 9, 5:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	52 min
Aug 9, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	39 min
Aug 9, 4:20 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	UNR		16 hr
Aug 9, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Weston	40 min

Nearby

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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.