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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 463

June 19, 200010 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 31 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier55 min
Jun 19, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln34 min
Jun 19, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln32 min
Jun 19, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster58 min
Jun 19, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Loup65 min
Jun 19, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLBFCuster28 min
Jun 19, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson, Gosper45 min
Jun 19, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDGosper29 min
Jun 19, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson, Phelps48 min
Jun 19, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDValley49 min
Jun 19, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarfield, Wheeler35 min
Jun 19, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper49 min
Jun 19, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo59 min
Jun 19, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhelps42 min
Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDValley45 min
Jun 19, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo40 min
Jun 19, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFWheeler25 min
Jun 19, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney, Phelps59 min
Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDGreeley51 min
Jun 19, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo41 min
Jun 19, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRed Willow27 min
Jun 19, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas55 min
Jun 19, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDKearney32 min
Jun 19, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams46 min
Jun 19, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBlaine, Brown30 min
Jun 19, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur42 min
Jun 19, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney, Phelps26 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 265 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 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
265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-366 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.