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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 423

May 23, 200316 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT for 16 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2003, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Thomas	38 min
May 23, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	53 min
May 24, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	58 min
May 24, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	57 min
May 24, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
May 24, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	42 min
May 24, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	58 min
May 24, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	39 min
May 24, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	50 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 8:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Chase, Cherry and 20 more	94 min
May 23, 10:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherry, Hooker, Thomas	33 min
May 23, 11:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas and 12 more	117 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.