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Tornado Watch 456

June 4, 20085 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 4, 2008, 7:49 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2008, 7:49 PM MDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2008, 2:59 AM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 65 counties

Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson, Gosper40 min
Jun 4, 7:58 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLBFHayes2 hr
Jun 4, 8:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDThayer44 min
Jun 4, 8:01 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFHayes29 min
Jun 4, 8:02 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXSaunders4 hr
Jun 4, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders43 min
Jun 4, 8:04 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDHitchcock38 min
Jun 4, 8:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDYuma6 hr
Jun 4, 8:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby58 min
Jun 4, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson39 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page66 min
Jun 4, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJefferson51 min
Jun 4, 8:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDThayer4 hr
Jun 4, 8:29 PM MDTTornado WarningLBFFrontier, Hayes, Lincoln61 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell60 min
Jun 4, 8:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline and 1 more41 min
Jun 4, 8:35 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLBFFrontier, Hayes, Lincoln3 hr
Jun 4, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDHitchcock, Red Willow66 min
Jun 4, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer63 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM MDTTornado WarningOAXJefferson32 min
Jun 4, 8:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCass4 hr
Jun 4, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders45 min
Jun 4, 9:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Smith66 min
Jun 4, 9:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby27 min
Jun 4, 9:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline and 1 more45 min
Jun 4, 9:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXGage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline8 hr
Jun 4, 9:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page38 min
Jun 4, 9:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster47 min
Jun 4, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln45 min
Jun 4, 9:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson, Gosper, Phelps40 min
Jun 4, 9:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster3 hr
Jun 4, 9:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer34 min
Jun 4, 9:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDFillmore4 hr
Jun 4, 9:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page4 hr
Jun 4, 9:55 PM MDTTornado WarningGIDGosper, Phelps20 min
Jun 4, 9:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline and 1 more46 min
Jun 4, 10:10 PM MDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps35 min
Jun 4, 10:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton and 5 more62 min
Jun 4, 10:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Gosper46 min
Jun 4, 10:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper, Kearney, Phelps27 min
Jun 4, 10:36 PM MDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Kearney, Phelps24 min
Jun 4, 10:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDClay3 hr
Jun 4, 10:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Hall, Howard, Sherman50 min
Jun 4, 10:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe and 1 more64 min
Jun 4, 10:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps46 min
Jun 4, 10:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe53 min
Jun 4, 10:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson51 min
Jun 4, 10:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Kearney, Phelps and 1 more46 min
Jun 4, 11:05 PM MDTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps25 min
Jun 4, 11:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDKearney2 hr
Jun 4, 11:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Saunders24 min
Jun 4, 11:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer24 min
Jun 4, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMills, Montgomery33 min
Jun 4, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York60 min
Jun 4, 11:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXAtchison44 min
Jun 4, 11:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward42 min
Jun 4, 11:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLBFFrontier4 hr
Jun 4, 11:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMontgomery, Page47 min
Jun 4, 11:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster46 min
Jun 4, 11:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 3 more48 min
Jun 4, 11:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGIDAdams107 min
Jun 4, 11:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler9 min
Jun 5, 12:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 6 more43 min
Jun 5, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPage40 min
Jun 5, 12:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCass4 hr
Jun 5, 12:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward40 min
Jun 5, 12:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York34 min
Jun 5, 1:30 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXButler, Saunders6 hr
Jun 5, 1:43 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningOAXFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page3 hr

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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 00:00Z on 2008-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1552 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2008-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
7.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 6:55 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more65 min
Jun 5, 4:07 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 5 more2 hr
Jun 5, 4:33 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Custer, Huerfano and 11 more6 hr
Jun 5, 6:23 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 2 more67 min
Jun 5, 10:08 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Otero and 3 more67 min
Jun 4, 6:02 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCClinton, Jackson, Scott8 hr
Jun 4, 8:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 60 more87 min
Jun 4, 10:14 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Taylor2 hr
Jun 4, 10:56 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 64 more5 hr
Jun 5, 12:38 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllamakee, Winneshiek3 hr
Jun 5, 2:06 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie84 min
Jun 5, 3:11 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Cedar, Clarke and 33 more94 min
Jun 5, 3:59 AM MDTTornado WatchSPCCedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 10 more6 hr
Jun 5, 5:46 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCedar, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott119 min
Jun 5, 9:11 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more94 min
Jun 5, 9:35 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie85 min
Jun 5, 9:55 AM MDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBuena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Fremont and 15 more8 hr
Jun 5, 1:01 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDickinson, Emmet, Lyon, Osceola59 min
Jun 5, 4:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 39 more95 min
Jun 5, 4:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLyon91 min
Jun 5, 4:50 PM MDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 44 more7 hr
Jun 5, 10:13 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 27 more92 min
Jun 5, 10:47 AM MDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 26 more8 hr
Jun 5, 11:44 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Ellsworth, Harper and 18 more91 min
Jun 5, 12:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more6 hr
Jun 5, 2:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more93 min
Jun 5, 3:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 30 more37 min
Jun 5, 3:50 PM MDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more7 hr
Jun 5, 5:22 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 33 more53 min
Jun 5, 2:09 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 21 more2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2008Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2008Tornado Watches in Iowa, 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.