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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 693
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 28, 2007, 4:55 PM MDT for 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2007, 4:55 PM MDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2007, 10:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 44 min |
| Sep 28, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Sep 28, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Sep 28, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 47 min |
| Sep 28, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 24 min |
| Sep 28, 6:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 28 min |
| Sep 28, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 33 min |
| Sep 28, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Sep 28, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson, Thomas | 34 min |
| Sep 28, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 23 min |
| Sep 28, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 9:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 23 min |
| Sep 28, 9:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock | 43 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 2279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 1:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hitchcock | 89 min |
| Sep 28, 2:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 6 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.