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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 645
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2003, 3:10 PM CDT for 6 counties in Iowa; 53 counties in Nebraska; 14 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2003, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 73 counties
Harrison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 39 min |
| Jul 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 59 min |
| Jul 5, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Rock | 41 min |
| Jul 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 77 min |
| Jul 5, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Loup | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Pierce | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Blaine, Loup | 42 min |
| Jul 5, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Holt | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 27 min |
| Jul 5, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Wayne | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Pierce | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Antelope | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 46 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1373 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay and 20 more | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan and 68 more | 90 min |
| Jul 4, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk and 56 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque and 10 more | 89 min |
| Jul 5, 12:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 37 more | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Cass, Clarke and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Page, Pottawattamie and 1 more | 93 min |
| Jul 4, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 9 more | 83 min |
| Jul 4, 11:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Garfield, Holt and 6 more | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 6:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Cherry, Garfield and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes and 3 more | 84 min |
| Jul 5, 4:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Clark, Dewey and 20 more | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Butte, Campbell, Charles Mix and 28 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.