Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 558

June 21, 200315 counties in Nebraska; 32 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 21, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT for 15 counties in Nebraska; 32 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties

Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Jones County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Miner County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes, Hyde46 min
Jun 21, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Keya Paha56 min
Jun 21, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink59 min
Jun 21, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHand, Hyde46 min
Jun 21, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHughes14 min
Jun 21, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRTodd37 min
Jun 21, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Spink61 min
Jun 21, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Rock41 min
Jun 22, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Rock45 min
Jun 22, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry38 min
Jun 22, 1:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLBFCherry, Keya Paha2 hr

Discussions around it

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

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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 2003-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1967 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 2003-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
1967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
7.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 25 more66 min
Jun 21, 10:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlaine, Boyd, Brown, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha and 2 more94 min
Jun 22, 1:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 9 more63 min
Jun 22, 4:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 5 more97 min
Jun 22, 9:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Cass, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Gage and 10 more3 hr
Jun 22, 2:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Boyd, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 18 more2 hr
Jun 22, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Buffalo, Burt and 57 more5 hr
Jun 22, 5:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Antelope, Boone, Clay, Fillmore, Greeley and 15 more61 min
Jun 21, 9:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Day, Grant, Marshall, Roberts92 min
Jun 22, 12:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Day, Edmunds, Grant, McPherson, Marshall and 1 more60 min
Jun 22, 1:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade and 2 more118 min
Jun 22, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon and 11 more7 hr
Jun 22, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brookings, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day and 12 more6 hr
Jun 22, 5:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Haakon, Harding and 8 more117 min
Jun 22, 5:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 5 more61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.