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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 522

June 24, 200510 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2005, 10:10 PM CDT for 10 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2005, 10:10 PM CDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Cloud County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:13 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan59 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 2005-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2080 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 2005-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
2080 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1315 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 4:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman and 3 more88 min
Jun 24, 7:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 16 more88 min
Jun 24, 8:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 18 more33 min
Jun 24, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 24 more8 hr
Jun 24, 11:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 21 more67 min
Jun 25, 12:04 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 22 more86 min
Jun 25, 2:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Burt, Colfax and 27 more67 min
Jun 25, 3:23 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 11 more37 min
Jun 25, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden, Kimball and 4 more95 min
Jun 25, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 9 more7 hr
Jun 25, 6:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 8 more3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.