Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 390
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.
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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 1:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 6:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 14 more | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:45 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more | 90 min |
| Jun 4, 12:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more | 115 min |
| Jun 4, 1:05 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud and 37 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cowley, Harper, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more | 91 min |
| Jun 4, 5:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cowley, Greenwood, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more | 84 min |
| Jun 4, 11:14 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Hayes and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawson, Lincoln, Logan | 119 min |
| Jun 4, 4:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 18 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2005Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2005Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2005Every tornado 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.