Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 641

July 30, 200115 counties in Nebraska; 7 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 30, 2001, 2:00 PM MDT for 15 counties in Nebraska; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 2001, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Todd County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River63 min
Jul 30, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRFall River47 min
Jul 30, 6:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster57 min

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 332 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 2001-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2001-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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 29, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Boone, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Garfield and 16 more4 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.