Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 243
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2020, 2:05 PM CDT for 12 counties in Nebraska; 15 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2020, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2020, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Grant County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Loup County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 29 min |
| Jun 3, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 18 min |
| Jun 3, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 28 min |
| Jun 3, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Oglala Lakota | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Thomas | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Loup, Rock | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Wheeler | 36 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Keya Paha | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 2:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Perkins and 1 more | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Dawes, Grant, Holt and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Buffalo, Chase, Clay, Custer and 28 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Buffalo, Chase, Clay, Custer and 33 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2020Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2020Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2020
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.