Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 2016, 6:38 PM MDT for Fall River County, South Dakota. It was in force for 16 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2016, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2016, 6:54 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
County Fall River County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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 26, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
392
WFUS53 KUNR 270038
TORUNR
SDC047-270115-
/O.NEW.KUNR.TO.W.0013.160727T0038Z-160727T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
638 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RAPID CITY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL FALL RIVER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...
* UNTIL 715 PM MDT
* AT 637 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR RUMFORD...OR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
EDGEMONT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ARDMORE AROUND 650 PM MDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4317 10374 4319 10348 4300 10332 4300 10365
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 333DEG 26KT 4314 10359
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
JOHNSON1 follow-up statement
106
WWUS53 KUNR 270054
SVSUNR
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
654 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016
SDC047-270104-
/O.CAN.KUNR.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160727T0115Z/
FALL RIVER SD-
654 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL FALL RIVER COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL IS
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.
LAT...LON 4317 10374 4319 10348 4300 10332 4300 10365
TIME...MOT...LOC 0052Z 333DEG 26KT 4303 10351
$$
JOHNSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 6 hr |
| Jul 26, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 6:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Tripp | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 6:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Fall River, Oglala Lakota | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 66 min |
| Jul 26, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Todd | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 11:37 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Harding | 53 min |
| Jul 27, 12:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Perkins | 38 min |
| Jul 27, 1:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 1:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 1:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Todd | 46 min |
| Jul 27, 2:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon | 40 min |
| Jul 27, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 2:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 3:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Todd | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 3:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 47 min |
| Jul 27, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 5:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Todd | 57 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.