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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 511
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2025, 4:40 PM MDT for 14 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2025, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2025, 10:11 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bennett County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 199 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Pennington | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Fall River, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Mellette | 20 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Stanley, Sully | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Fall River, Jackson, Oglala Lakota | 21 min |
| Jul 14, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson, Mellette, Todd | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 7:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Stanley | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde, Sully | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 8:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Stanley | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Mellette | 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 4 more | 117 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.