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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 28, 2025Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 2025, 5:14 PM MDT for Meade County, Pennington County, South Dakota. It was in force for 31 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 28, 2025, 5:14 PM MDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2025, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Rapid City, SD
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

Counties Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 320 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -9.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 6:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Meade	28 min
Jun 27, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach	59 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Harding	33 min
Jun 27, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Mellette, Tripp	57 min
Jun 27, 6:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Perkins	31 min
Jun 27, 7:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	37 min
Jun 27, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Tripp	12 min
Jun 28, 2:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	62 min
Jun 28, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding	30 min
Jun 28, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Butte	60 min
Jun 28, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Butte, Meade	10 min
Jun 28, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	UNR	Butte, Meade	47 min
Jun 28, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	UNR	Butte, Meade	55 min
Jun 28, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	38 min
Jun 28, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	40 min
Jun 28, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Meade, Pennington	64 min
Jun 28, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	20 min
Jun 28, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	54 min
Jun 28, 5:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	37 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.