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Blizzard Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

April 2, 202316 counties in South Dakota; Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this blizzard warning at Apr 2, 2023, 2:03 PM MDT for 16 counties in South Dakota; Crook County, Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Apr 3, 2023, 2:03 PM MDT. It was in force for 35 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2023, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 3, 2023, 2:03 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2023, 1:24 AM MDT
In force: 35 hr
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River 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, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blizzard 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 blizzard warning went out at Apr 2, 11:21 AM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 11:21 AM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 1:26 PM MDT, 37 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
Apr 2, 2:03 PM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	UNR	Butte, Custer, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	59 hr

Nearby

Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota, 2023 Blizzard Warnings in Wyoming, 2023 Every blizzard warning in 2023

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.