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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 389

June 9, 200115 counties in Nebraska; Bon Homme County, Yankton County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Nebraska; Bon Homme County, Yankton County, South Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Rock County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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
Jun 9, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd, Holt, Rock55 min
Jun 9, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Keya Paha58 min
Jun 9, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt, Rock63 min
Jun 9, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox62 min
Jun 10, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope34 min
Jun 10, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope, Pierce47 min
Jun 10, 1:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt, Wheeler26 min
Jun 10, 1:18 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXAntelope27 min
Jun 10, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison, Stanton48 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3187 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 00:00Z on 2001-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
333 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.6
Supercell composite
27.1

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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
Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell and 28 more6 hr
Jun 9, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrookings, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 9 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.