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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Rapid City, SD

March 15, 2025Mellette County, Todd County, Tripp County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2025, 12:29 AM CDT for Mellette County, Todd County, Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 15, 2025, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2025, 6:56 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-15Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 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 15, 2:19 PM CDTFire Weather WatchUNRBennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 5 more13 hr

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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.