Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 104

April 2, 200721 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 2, 2007, 4:28 PM MDT for 21 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 2, 2007, 4:28 PM MDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 2007, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 21 counties

Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
5%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel, Garden51 min
Apr 2, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith52 min
Apr 2, 5:42 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFKeith33 min
Apr 2, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker44 min
Apr 2, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas50 min
Apr 2, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith, Lincoln58 min
Apr 2, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLogan, McPherson65 min
Apr 2, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster67 min
Apr 2, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Lincoln62 min
Apr 2, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster44 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 2007-04-02Temperature 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 2007-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
1690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 4:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry, Custer and 18 more95 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2007Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007

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.