Runoff from heavy rain on already saturated ground caused minor flooding along Battle Creek.
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Runoff from heavy rain on already saturated ground caused minor flooding along Battle Creek.
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 7, 7:22 PM MST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR WESTERN SD AND NORTHEASTERN WY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 822 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 812 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 UPPER LEVEL TROF IS FINALLY EXITING FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND CLOUDS ASSOCIATED W/ THE TROF ARE DISSIPATING AS THE SUN SETS...LEAVING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES FOR THE NIGHT. WITH MUCH LOWER DEWPOINTS MOVING INTO THE AREA...TEMPERATURES SHOULD COOL QUICKLY...SO HAVE LOWERED MIN TEMPERATURES FOR TONIGHT. && .SHORT TERM...THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT ISSUED AT 255 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS COOL FRONT WELL SOUTH AND EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA...WITH WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. A WEAK SURFACE TROF IS NOTED FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST SD. UPPER LEVEL ANALYSIS SHOWS SPLIT FLOW OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS...WITH NORTHWEST FLOW STARTING TO TAKE OVER ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AS CUTOFF LOW OVER THE GREAT BASIN AREA WEAKENS AND GETS PUSHED SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. LINGERING SHORTWAVE ENERGY AND THE SURFACE TROF IS HELPING TO PRODUCE ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOSTLY SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL SD. OTHER LIGHT SHOWERS AND SPRINKLES ARE NOTED FURTHER NORTH. SKIES ARE VARIABLY CLOUDY ACROSS THE AREA WITH TEMPS IN THE 70S TO AROUND 80 DEGREES. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE BREEZY AT TIMES ACROSS NORTHWEST SD. DRIER AIR IS SLOWLY BUILDING INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST... WITH THE EARLY PART OF THE WEEK LOOKING MAINLY DRY ACROSS THE AREA. FOR TONIGHT...SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL DISSIPATE BY EARLY EVENING...WITH SKIES MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY OVERNIGHT. LOWS WILL BE IN THE 50S AND LOWER 60S AS WINDS GO LIGHT AND TURN WEST- SOUTHWEST IN MOST AREAS BY MORNING. MONDAY WILL BE A MOSTLY SUNNY DAY AS WEAK RIDGING MOVES ACROSS THE REGION AND WESTERLY WINDS USHER IN A WARMER AND DRIER AIRMASS. HIGHS WILL BE IN THE 80S OVER THE PLAINS...70S IN THE BLACK HILLS. LOWS WILL BE IN THE MID 50S TO MID 60S MONDAY AS SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS DEVELOP AHEAD OF A SLOW APPROACHING COOL FRONT. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ISSUED AT 255 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN TUESDAY...TRANSITIONING TO SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH A TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN CONUS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASE WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY AS A COUPLE WAVES MOVE THROUGH SOUTHWEST FLOW. MODELS DIVERGE FOR THE END OF THE WEEK...WITH THE GFS MOVING THE TROUGH/LOW THROUGH THE NORTHERN PLAINS FASTER THAN THE ECMWF. BOTH MODELS HINT AT ANOTHER RIDGE BRIEFLY BUILDING INTO THE CENTRAL CONUS FOR THE END OF THE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND...WITH DIMINISHING CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS. TUESDAY WILL BE WARMEST DAY OF THE WEEK...WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S TO LOWER 90S. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY... BRINGING NEAR TO BELOW NORMAL TEMPS FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. WARMER TEMPS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z MONDAY EVENING ISSUED AT 554 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 ISOLD TSTMS CONT TO MOV SEWD ACRS THE FCST AREA THIS EVEN AHD OF A UPPER TROF...BUT ARE WEAKENING AS TEMPS COOL. SKIES WL BE MSTLY CLR OVERNITE...WITH A FEW CU DVLPG DURG THE DAY MON. NW WNDS WL DCRS...THEN BECM W/SW TONITE. && .UNR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...NONE. WY...NONE. && UPDATE...55 SHORT TERM...26 LONG TERM...POJORLIE AVIATION...55
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 311 AM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 SDZ001-002-012>014-024>032-041>044-046-047-049-072>074-WYZ054>058- 071-081300- HARDING-PERKINS-BUTTE-NORTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-ZIEBACH- NORTHERN BLACK HILLS-NORTHERN FOOT HILLS-RAPID CITY- SOUTHERN FOOT HILLS-CENTRAL BLACK HILLS-SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS- CUSTER CO PLAINS-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-HAAKON-FALL RIVER-SHANNON- JACKSON-BENNETT-MELLETTE-TODD-TRIPP-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS-HERMOSA FOOT HILLS-NORTHERN CAMPBELL- SOUTHERN CAMPBELL-WESTERN CROOK-WYOMING BLACK HILLS-WESTON- NORTHEASTERN CROOK- 311 AM MDT SUN JUN 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...MAINLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WYOMING...THE BLACK HILLS...AND SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. HIGH STREAM FLOWS WITH SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON SOME CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE BLACK HILLS AND THE ADJACENT PLAINS. ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TODAY MAY COMBINE WITH SATURATED SOILS TO AGGRAVATE FLOODING CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY FLOODING CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA THE NEXT FEW DAYS. .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.
Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along Battle Creek near Hermosa, where the stream gauge exceeded flood stage by 2.4 feet.
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