Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 220
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 23, 2008, 1:25 PM MDT for 11 counties in Colorado; 11 counties in Kansas; 23 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2008, 1:25 PM MDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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.
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 96 min |
| Apr 23, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 17 min |
| Apr 23, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 4:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 4:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 19 min |
| Apr 23, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Prowers | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 4:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 5:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Perkins | 43 min |
| Apr 23, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 22 min |
| Apr 23, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 12 min |
| Apr 23, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 6:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 6:31 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes, Sioux | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 6:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill | 38 min |
| Apr 23, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill | 28 min |
| Apr 23, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 25 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 12:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:20 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Dickinson and 32 more | 85 min |
| Apr 23, 8:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 11:13 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 40 more | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 2:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 58 more | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Burt and 51 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Burt and 51 more | 116 min |
| Apr 23, 4:58 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha and 2 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2008Tornado Watches in Colorado, 2008Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2008Every tornado watch in 2008
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.