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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 27, 2023Jackson County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2023, 6:35 PM MDT for Jackson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 25 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 27, 2023, 6:35 PM MDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2023, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.5 in

County Jackson County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 27, 1:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 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.

NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 27, 5:45 PM MDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 5:45 PM MDT, 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:19 AM MDT, 15 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:51 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:02 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:06 PM MDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:08 PM MDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:15 PM MDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:33 PM MDT, 2 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
Jun 27, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson	56 min
Jun 27, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington	61 min
Jun 27, 6:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Pennington	54 min
Jun 27, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Jackson, Mellette	79 min
Jun 27, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota	42 min
Jun 27, 7:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Haakon	17 min
Jun 27, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	58 min
Jun 27, 8:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Todd	65 min
Jun 27, 8:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Todd, Tripp	48 min
Jun 27, 9:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Todd, Tripp	54 min
Jun 27, 9:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Perkins	52 min
Jun 27, 9:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Todd	30 min
Jun 28, 1:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	44 min
Jun 28, 1:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	48 min
Jun 28, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	38 min
Jun 28, 2:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	42 min
Jun 28, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	39 min
Jun 28, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	65 min
Jun 28, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	54 min
Jun 28, 3:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Pennington	2 hr
Jun 28, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	27 min
Jun 28, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	59 min
Jun 28, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Oglala Lakota, Pennington	26 min
Jun 28, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	34 min
Jun 28, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Campbell	77 min
Jun 28, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Weston	55 min
Jun 28, 3:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Campbell	41 min
Jun 28, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Campbell, Weston	66 min
Jun 28, 5:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Crook	69 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.