Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 868
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 18, 2003, 2:05 PM CDT for 9 counties in Iowa; 33 counties in Kansas; 43 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 2003, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 85 counties
Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Monona County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 64 min |
| Aug 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster, Saline | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Seward | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Otoe | 53 min |
| Aug 18, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Dodge | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 59 min |
| Aug 18, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 18 min |
| Aug 18, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth | 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, Osceola | 118 min |
| Aug 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll and 18 more | 86 min |
| Aug 18, 1:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Republic, Smith | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kimball | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.