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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 522
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 15, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT for 25 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2007, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2007, 10:43 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Stanton | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 59 min |
| Jul 15, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dixon | 28 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Chase, Cherry and 24 more | 114 min |
| Jul 15, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay and 32 more | 91 min |
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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.