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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Rapid City, SD

June 3, 2026Tripp County, South Dakota

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2026, 7:41 PM CDT for Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 18 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 3, 2026, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2026, 7:59 PM CDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
2.0 in

County Tripp County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 3, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2026-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 966 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2026-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTripp42 min
Jun 3, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTripp24 min
Jun 4, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding, Perkins41 min
Jun 4, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Pennington46 min
Jun 4, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRLawrence, Meade, Pennington40 min
Jun 4, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell, Crook19 min
Jun 4, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook53 min
Jun 4, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCrook15 min
Jun 4, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCampbell, Weston13 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.