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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 541
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Yuma County, Colorado; 7 counties in Kansas; 21 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2000, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 7:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 9:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 9:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Phillips | 34 min |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax and 22 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.