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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 711

September 6, 200122 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 6, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT for 22 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Holt County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster58 min
Sep 6, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd57 min
Sep 6, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLoup, Rock48 min
Sep 6, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier67 min
Sep 6, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper48 min
Sep 6, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt67 min
Sep 7, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster60 min
Sep 7, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson, Gosper45 min
Sep 7, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDValley50 min
Sep 7, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd66 min
Sep 7, 12:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFWheeler42 min
Sep 7, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Sherman40 min
Sep 7, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox54 min
Sep 7, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHolt33 min
Sep 7, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard57 min
Sep 7, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhelps27 min
Sep 7, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope46 min
Sep 7, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox, Pierce42 min
Sep 7, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope, Boone35 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 2001-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1716 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 2001-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
1716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 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
Sep 7, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar and 31 more6 hr
Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson6 hr
Sep 7, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax, Dodge and 23 more3 hr
Sep 7, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCRichardson5 hr

Nearby

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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.