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Wind Advisory 17, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 3, 20164 counties in South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Jun 3, 2016, 2:55 AM MDT for 4 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Jun 3, 2016, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2016, 2:55 AM MDT (08:55 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 3, 2016, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Jun 3, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2016-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2016-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jun 2, 5:12 PM MDT, 9 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 5:12 PM MDT, 9 hours 43 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 4:04 AM MDT, 22 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD
404 AM MDT THU JUN 2 2016

SDZ024-026>031-041>044-046-047-049-074-WYZ055-058-031015-
NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-RAPID CITY-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-
CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-
PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-OGLALA LAKOTA-JACKSON-BENNETT-
MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-WESTON-
404 AM MDT THU JUN 2 2016 /504 AM CDT THU JUN 2 2016/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...THE BLACK HILLS OF
SOUTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS
TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20-30 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED
ON FRIDAY.

.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>014-025-032-072-073-WYZ054-056-057-071-031015-
HARDING-PERKINS-BUTTE-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-ZIEBACH-
NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-HAAKON-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-
SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-WESTERN CROOK-
WYOMING BLACK HILLS-NORTHEASTERN CROOK-
404 AM MDT THU JUN 2 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN
SOUTH DAKOTA...SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...AND NORTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT.
THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...WITH THE MAIN THREAT
BEING STRONG WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20-30 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED ON
FRIDAY.

.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

Nearby

Wind Advisories in South Dakota, 2016Every wind advisory in 2016

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.