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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2016, 6:46 PM MDT for Campbell County, Wyoming. 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
- Jun 28, 2016, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2016, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Campbell County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 217 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 3566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 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 Jun 28, 6:19 PM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:19 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 400 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016 SDZ002-014-032-046-049-291000- PERKINS-ZIEBACH-HAAKON-MELLETTE-TRIPP- 400 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016 /500 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...AND SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF STORMS BECOMING SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK...AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ON WEDNESDAY THERE IS A MARGINAL TO SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR CENTRAL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .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 SDZ001-012-013-024>031-041>044-047-072>074-WYZ054>058-071-291000- HARDING-BUTTE-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-NORTHERN BLACK HILLS- NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-RAPID CITY-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS- CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS- PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-OGLALA LAKOTA-JACKSON-BENNETT- TODD-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL- WESTERN CROOK-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-WESTON-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- 400 AM MDT TUE JUN 28 2016 /500 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF STORMS BECOMING SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK...AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. ON WEDNESDAY THERE IS A MARGINAL TO SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .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, Jun 28, 5:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 3:22 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Harding | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 1:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 2:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Fall River | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 2:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 57 min |
| Jun 29, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Ziebach | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach | 58 min |
| Jun 29, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Pennington | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Pennington | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 4:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Crook | 42 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.