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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

March 13, 202512 counties in South Dakota; Weston County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Mar 13, 2025, 1:33 PM MDT for 12 counties in South Dakota; Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 14 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
Mar 13, 2025, 1:33 PM MDT (19:33 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 14, 2025, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 14, 2025, 11:29 PM MDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 322 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2025-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2025-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 1:46 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchUNRBennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Meade and 5 more12 hr
Mar 13, 1:33 PM MDTWind AdvisoryUNRCuster, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota, Pennington and 2 more34 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2025High Wind Warnings in Wyoming, 2025Every high wind warning in 2025

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.