Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 700
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 3, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT for 40 counties in Nebraska; Clay County, Union County, South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Antelope County, NE, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Chase County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Keith County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Clay County, SD, Union County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 3, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Valley | 6 hr |
| Aug 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Aug 3, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 63 min |
| Aug 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Wayne | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dakota | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 11 min |
| Aug 3, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 25 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 568 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 10:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Cedar, Cuming, Custer and 21 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.