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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Rapid City, SD

July 3, 2018Haakon County, Ziebach County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2018, 11:01 PM MDT for Haakon County, Ziebach County, South Dakota. It was in force for 14 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: Jul 3, 2018, 11:01 PM MDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2018, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.5 in

Counties Haakon County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:05 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
Jul 3, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:12 PM MDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:19 PM MDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:27 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:34 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:46 PM MDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:58 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Fall River, Pennington	59 min
Jul 3, 6:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR		33 min
Jul 3, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	37 min
Jul 3, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence	24 min
Jul 3, 8:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Harding	26 min
Jul 3, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	67 min
Jul 3, 8:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Harding	30 min
Jul 3, 8:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence, Meade	47 min
Jul 3, 8:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Harding, Perkins	25 min
Jul 3, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	57 min
Jul 3, 9:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Ziebach	34 min
Jul 3, 9:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Perkins	37 min
Jul 3, 9:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	22 min
Jul 3, 9:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Ziebach	35 min
Jul 3, 9:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Perkins	32 min
Jul 3, 10:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	33 min
Jul 3, 10:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	47 min
Jul 3, 10:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach	72 min
Jul 3, 11:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	51 min
Jul 3, 11:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Ziebach	31 min
Jul 3, 11:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	37 min
Jul 3, 11:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	18 min
Jul 3, 6:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Crook	66 min
Jul 3, 7:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Weston	46 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.