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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 433

June 7, 200517 counties in Iowa; 32 counties in Nebraska; Bon Homme County, Clay County, Union County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2005, 11:50 PM CDT for 17 counties in Iowa; 32 counties in Nebraska; Bon Homme County, Clay County, Union County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2005, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties

Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Cass County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Holt County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Clay County, SD, Union County, SD

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Saunders46 min
Jun 8, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster, Seward30 min
Jun 8, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming26 min
Jun 8, 2:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPierce44 min
Jun 8, 4:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming, Thurston33 min

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 354 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2005-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 179 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2005-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLyon, Sioux7 hr
Jun 8, 8:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold and 1 more65 min
Jun 8, 9:47 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and 11 more28 min
Jun 8, 9:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Henry, Jefferson and 5 more7 hr
Jun 8, 11:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee and 4 more29 min
Jun 8, 12:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDes Moines, Henry, Lee5 hr
Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Guthrie and 8 more4 hr
Jun 7, 7:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson and 9 more91 min
Jun 7, 9:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAurora, Beadle, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix and 25 more57 min
Jun 7, 11:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrookings, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Hanson and 6 more59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 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.