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Tornado Watch 390

June 4, 2005Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2005, 12:25 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Kansas; 30 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2005, 12:25 PM MDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2005, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 12:34 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith26 min
Jun 4, 1:00 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith30 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFArthur, McPherson45 min
Jun 4, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFMcPherson60 min
Jun 4, 2:56 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFHooker, McPherson33 min
Jun 4, 3:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan, McPherson, Thomas61 min
Jun 4, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFLincoln32 min
Jun 4, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln60 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2005-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 8:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more26 min
Jun 3, 9:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more5 hr
Jun 4, 12:45 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more90 min
Jun 4, 12:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more115 min
Jun 4, 1:05 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 37 more9 hr
Jun 4, 1:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCowley, Harper, Sumner2 hr
Jun 4, 2:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more8 hr
Jun 4, 4:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more91 min
Jun 4, 5:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Cowley, Greenwood, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more84 min
Jun 4, 11:14 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBuffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Hayes and 6 more2 hr
Jun 4, 2:46 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDawson, Lincoln, Logan119 min
Jun 4, 4:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 18 more2 hr

Nearby

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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.