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Special Weather Statement, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 19, 2021Ziebach County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2021, 11:29 PM MDT for Ziebach County, South Dakota. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2021, 11:29 PM MDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2021, 12:15 AM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

County Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 2021-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1152 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2021-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 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
1152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2340 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

As transmitted.

970 
WWUS83 KUNR 200529
SPSUNR

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Rapid City SD
1129 PM MDT Sat Jun 19 2021
 
SDZ013-014-032-200615-
Ziebach SD-Haakon SD-Northern Meade Co Plains SD-
1129 PM MDT Sat Jun 19 2021

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN HAAKON...SOUTHWESTERN ZIEBACH
AND EAST CENTRAL MEADE COUNTIES...

At 1129 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles west of Red Scaffold, or 18 miles south of Faith, moving east
at 30 mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Red Scaffold and Takini. 

LAT...LON 4474 10206 4484 10198 4479 10144 4450 10159
TIME...MOT...LOC 0529Z 288DEG 28KT 4476 10196 

$$

Helgeson

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade, Pennington65 min
Jun 19, 6:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington38 min
Jun 19, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade, Pennington30 min
Jun 19, 7:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRButte52 min
Jun 19, 7:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRPennington62 min
Jun 19, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Pennington57 min
Jun 19, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRJackson, Pennington54 min
Jun 19, 8:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRJackson43 min
Jun 19, 9:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRMellette58 min
Jun 19, 10:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRMeade39 min
Jun 20, 12:23 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementUNRHaakon37 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.