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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Rapid City, SD
NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2018, 8:03 PM MDT for Meade County, Ziebach County, South Dakota. It was in force for 24 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 10, 2018, 8:03 PM MDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2018, 8:27 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Rapid City, SD
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.25 in
Counties Meade County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:52 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 3540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 10, 5:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 5:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Rapid City SD 1155 AM MDT Sun Jun 10 2018 SDZ024>026-028-031-032-043-046-049-072-073-WYZ056-057-071-111300- Northern Black Hills-Northern Foot Hills-Rapid City- Central Black Hills-Pennington Co Plains-Haakon-Jackson-Mellette- Tripp-Sturgis/Piedmont Foot Hills-Southern Meade Co Plains- Western Crook-Wyoming Black Hills-Northeastern Crook- 1155 AM MDT Sun Jun 10 2018 /1255 PM CDT Sun Jun 10 2018/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwestern South Dakota...south central South Dakota...southwestern South Dakota...the Black Hills of South Dakota...northeast Wyoming... and the Black Hills of Wyoming. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. There is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds. .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 SDZ027-029-030-041-042-044-047-074-WYZ054-055-058-111300- Southern Foot Hills-Southern Black Hills-Custer Co Plains- Fall River-Oglala Lakota-Bennett-Todd-Hermosa Foot Hills- Northern Campbell-Southern Campbell-Weston- 1155 AM MDT Sun Jun 10 2018 /1255 PM CDT Sun Jun 10 2018/ 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...This Afternoon and Tonight Isolated thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. There is a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds. .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 SDZ001-002-012>014-111300- Harding-Perkins-Butte-Northern Meade Co Plains-Ziebach- 1155 AM MDT Sun Jun 10 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwestern South Dakota. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight Scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. There is am enhanced risk of severe thunderstorms, with large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon and evening across northwest South Dakota. && Stay tuned to NOAA weather radio for further updates...or check our web site at weather.gov/rapidcity
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 44 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 |
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| Jun 10, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 10 min |
| Jun 10, 6:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | 25 min | |
| Jun 10, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Perkins | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Oglala Lakota | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Pennington | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 22 min |
| Jun 10, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 77 min |
| Jun 10, 10:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | UNR | Ziebach | 10 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 20 min |
| Jun 10, 10:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Meade | 21 min |
| Jun 11, 1:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 1:39 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 1:51 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Tripp | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 2:04 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Tripp | 39 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.