Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 627

July 27, 20007 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 27, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 9 counties in Kansas; 24 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne 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, Kimball County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Thomas County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUMorgan, Weld45 min
Jul 27, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins60 min
Jul 27, 6:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden59 min
Jul 27, 8:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDYuma60 min
Jul 27, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUPhillips, Sedgwick36 min
Jul 27, 8:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker, McPherson57 min
Jul 27, 8:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson53 min
Jul 27, 9:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith54 min
Jul 27, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln65 min

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2000-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha5 hr
Jul 26, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more4 hr
Jul 26, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford and 6 more4 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.