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Tornado Watch 158

April 6, 200620 counties in Nebraska; 9 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 6, 2006, 5:18 PM CDT for 20 counties in Nebraska; 9 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 6, 2006, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2006, 10:24 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties

Antelope County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Burt County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Rock County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFRock32 min
Apr 6, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry46 min
Apr 6, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry42 min
Apr 6, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha, Rock56 min
Apr 6, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd, Holt64 min
Apr 6, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison27 min
Apr 6, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming30 min
Apr 6, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDDixon38 min
Apr 6, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDYankton31 min
Apr 6, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDUnion25 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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 2006-04-06Temperature 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 2006-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -236 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-299 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
Apr 6, 1:20 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Knox, Rock85 min
Apr 6, 6:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 1 more119 min
Apr 6, 12:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler and 34 more2 hr
Apr 6, 12:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay and 33 more8 hr
Apr 6, 3:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAntelope, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 7 more2 hr
Apr 6, 2:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeadle, Brookings, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark and 31 more118 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2006Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006

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.