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Wind Advisory 35, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Dec 26, 2016, 5:52 AM CST for Todd County, Tripp County, South Dakota. It took effect at Dec 26, 2016, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 26, 2016, 5:52 AM CST (11:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 26, 2016, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2016, 11:54 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
Counties Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 536 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 26, 4:34 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 4:34 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 25, 7:09 AM CST, 22 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 609 AM MST SUN DEC 25 2016 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-072>074-WYZ054>058-071-261400- HARDING-PERKINS-BUTTE-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-ZIEBACH- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-RAPID CITY- SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS- CUSTER CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-HAAKON-FALL RIVER- OGLALA LAKOTA-JACKSON-BENNETT-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL- SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-WESTERN CROOK-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-WESTON- NORTHEASTERN CROOK- 609 AM MST SUN DEC 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA...WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHEAST WYOMING...AND THE BLACK HILLS OF WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT...BRINGING A WIDE VARIETY OF WEATHER TO THE AREA. SNOW WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING AND MUCH OF WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS MORNING...BECOMING MODERATE TO HEAVY AT TIMES IN MANY AREAS LATE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON. SOME FREEZING DRIZZLE...FREEZING RAIN...AND SLEET IS ALSO EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA EARLY THIS MORNING BEFORE TURNING TO ALL SNOW LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. ANY ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AROUND MIDDAY...WITH GUSTS TO OVER 60 MPH ACROSS THE WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA PLAINS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON...PRODUCING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT IN MANY AREAS. AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. TRAVEL WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST WYOMING AND WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SNOW WILL TAPER OFF FROM SOUTH TO NORTH TONIGHT...WITH WINDS GRADUALLY DECREASING LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. SNOWFALL TOTALS OF 6 TO 12 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA...WITH 4 TO 9 INCHES ACROSS MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED MONDAY MORNING OVER THE NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA PLAINS BEFORE WINDS FURTHER DIMINISH IN THE AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY SDZ046-047-049-261400- MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP- 709 AM CST SUN DEC 25 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE OR FREEZING RAIN IS POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING BEFORE PRECIPITATION TURNS TO ALL RAIN. ANY ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LIGHT. RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING...WITH GUSTS TO OVER 50 MPH EXPECTED TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES...OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 8:47 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Todd, Tripp | 9 hr |
| Dec 26, 11:39 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Meade, Pennington | 3 hr |
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.