Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 340
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 28, 2005, 2:35 PM CDT for 26 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2005, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 38 min |
| May 28, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 61 min |
| May 28, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan, Thomas | 22 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Geary and 19 more | 116 min |
| May 28, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne | 7 hr |
| May 28, 4:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 13 more | 92 min |
| May 28, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.