Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 422
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT for Jewell County, Phillips County, Smith County, Kansas; 20 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Jewell County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Loup County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 20 min |
| Jun 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 12:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Buffalo | 6 hr |
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 115 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
- 3224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 070013
SEL2
SPC WW 070013
KSZ000-NEZ000-070600-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 422
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
715 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
CENTRAL NEBRASKA
EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM 715 PM UNTIL
100 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 45 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTH OF AINSWORTH NEBRASKA
TO 70 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 416...WW 419...WW 420...WW
421...
DISCUSSION...SEVERE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE NEWD ACROSS PARTS OF WRN
NEB AT 20-30 KT. ACTIVITY IS PROJECTED TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL AREAS
WITHIN THE NEXT 1-2 HOURS WHERE AIR MASS IS VERY UNSTABLE WITH
MLCAPE BETWEEN 2500 AND 3000 J/KG. LATEST RUC MODEL SHOWS LOW LEVEL
FLOW WILL INCREASE THRU THIS AREA AFTER 02Z TO 40-45 KT WITH SWLY
MID LEVEL FLOW 30-50 KT MAINTAINING FAVORABLE SHEAR PROFILES WITHIN
INSTABILITY AXIS FOR SUPERCELLS.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23030.
...MCCARTHY
425,0990 393,0980 393,0994 425,1005SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 6 more | 87 min |
| Jun 6, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 9:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Frontier and 8 more | 85 min |
| Jun 7, 2:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Dawes, Keya Paha, Sheridan and 1 more | 37 min |
| Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Sheridan, Sioux | 8 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.