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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 746
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 25, 2005, 8:30 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2005, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Holt County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 41 min |
| Aug 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 37 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 2370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 2 more | 83 min |
| Aug 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 8 more | 92 min |
| Aug 26, 2:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Knox and 1 more | 54 min |
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.