Runoff from heavy thunderstorms caused minor flooding east of Cottonwood.
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Runoff from heavy thunderstorms caused minor flooding east of Cottonwood.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Rapid City, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 2:18 AM MST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 318 AM MDT MON JUN 16 2014 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT ISSUED AT 317 AM MDT MON JUN 16 2014 CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MT...WITH WARM FRONT EXTENDING INTO NORTHEAST WY AND THE BLACK HILLS AREA. UPPER LEVEL ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW OVER THE PACIFIC NW...WITH SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW AHEAD OF IT ACROSS THE ROCKIES INTO THE HIGH PLAINS. SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL JET HAS INTENSIFIED OVER NEB AND IS NOSING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL SD AT THIS TIME. SHOWERS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL NEB...MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST. A COUPLE OF LIGHT SHOWERS HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED OVER FAR NORTHEAST WY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. SKIES ARE PARTLY CLOUDY IN MOST AREAS WITH TEMPS GENERALLY IN THE 50S AND LOWER 60S. UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL RETURN TO THE AREA TODAY AND PERSIST THROUGH AT LEAST MIDWEEK...WITH DAILY CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES SLOWLY EAST INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES AND SURFACE LOW MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. SOUTH-SOUTHEAST FLOW AHEAD OF THE SURFACE LOW WILL BRING INCREASING MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA...ESPECIALLY NORTH AND EAST OF THE BLACK HILLS. FOR TODAY...LOW LEVEL JET OVER CENTRAL SD WILL LEAD TO ISOLATED/SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL SD...ESPECIALLY LATER THIS MORNING. FURTHER WEST ACROSS THE CWA...A SERIES OF WEAK SHORTWAVES WILL BRING CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND A FEW STORMS THROUGH THE DAY TO MOST AREAS...BETTER CHANCES LOOKING TO BE EARLY THIS MORNING AND LATER THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE DURING THE DAY INTO THIS EVENING... MAINLY EAST OF THE BLACK HILLS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL SD...WHERE INSTABILITY AND SHEAR WILL BE MOST FAVORABLE. HIGHS TODAY WILL BE IN THE MID 70S TO MID 80S...70S OVER THE BLACK HILLS. WARMEST TEMPS WILL BE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE BLACK HILLS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR PCPN TONIGHT WILL BE ACROSS NORTHWESTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA...WITH LOWS MOSTLY IN THE 50S. THE MOST ACTIVE WEATHER LOOKS TO BE LATER ON TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT AS LOW DRIFTS INTO NORTHEAST WY AND THE BLACK HILLS AREA...WITH WARM FRONT EXTENDING NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN SD. THE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE GREATEST ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CWA NEAR THE WARM FRONT...ESPECIALLY NORTHWESTERN SD...AS A STRONGER SHORTWAVE PUSHES NORTHWARD ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA. LARGE HAIL...STRONG WIND GUSTS...AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SEVERE STORMS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO LIKELY WITH ANY STRONGER STORMS...ESPECIALLY FROM FAR NORTHEAST WY AND THE NORTHERN BLACK HILLS INTO NORTHWESTERN SD. && .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ISSUED AT 317 AM MDT MON JUN 16 2014 LONG TERM MODELS ARE INDICATING ROUGHLY SIMILAR SOLUTIONS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...WITH A VERY SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW TRACKING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER LOW WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES CAN BE EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...WITH SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...FOR THE 12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z TUESDAY MORNING ISSUED AT 317 AM MDT MON JUN 16 2014 ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. REDUCED CIGS AND VSBY CAN BE EXPECTED IN ANY SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS...OTHERWISE VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL. && .UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. WY...NONE. && SHORT TERM...26 LONG TERM...10 AVIATION...10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 610 AM MDT SUN JUN 15 2014 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-161300- BENNETT-BUTTE-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-CUSTER CO PLAINS-FALL RIVER-HAAKON- HARDING-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-JACKSON-MELLETTE-NORTHEASTERN CROOK- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS- NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-PERKINS-RAPID CITY- SHANNON-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS-TODD-TRIPP- WESTERN CROOK-WESTON-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-ZIEBACH- 610 AM MDT (710 AM CDT) SUN JUN 15 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA LATE TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AN UNSETTLED PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO BRING DAILY CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA ON MONDAY. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY SEVERE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. && STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES... OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/RAPIDCITY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water Creek, a tributary of the South Fork of the Bad River, flooded Cottonwood Road. The South Fork of the Bad River crested at flood stage (12.0 feet) four miles east of Cottonwood, causing minor flooding of pastures.
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