Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 564
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2008, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 55 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 32 min |
| Jun 17, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 33 min |
| Jun 18, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 81 min |
| Jun 18, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 73 min |
| Jun 18, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 89 min |
| Jun 18, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Smith | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Reno, Rice | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell | 17 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson and 35 more | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 25 more | 95 min |
| Jun 18, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more | 35 min |
| Jun 18, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte and 33 more | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kimball | 28 min |
| Jun 18, 1:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Dawes, Garden and 7 more | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne and 17 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.