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Tornado Watch 456
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 7:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Hayes | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hayes | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 8:02 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 8:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 8:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Yuma | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 8:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 8:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Thayer | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline and 1 more | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 8:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 8:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 8:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 9:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 9:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 9:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 9:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper, Phelps | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 9:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 9:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 20 min |
| Jun 4, 9:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline and 1 more | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 10:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton and 5 more | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 10:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper, Kearney, Phelps | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 10:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Kearney, Phelps | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 10:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Hall, Howard, Sherman | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 10:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe and 1 more | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 10:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 10:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Kearney, Phelps and 1 more | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 11:05 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 11:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Kearney | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 11:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 11:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 11:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 11:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 11:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 11:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Frontier | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery, Page | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 11:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 11:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 3 more | 48 min |
| Jun 4, 11:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Adams | 107 min |
| Jun 4, 11:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 9 min |
| Jun 5, 12:17 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 6 more | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 12:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 12:36 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 12:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 1:30 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:43 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 3 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and 1 more | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 4:07 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Custer, Huerfano and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:23 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 2 more | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 10:08 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Otero and 3 more | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 6:02 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clinton, Jackson, Scott | 8 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 60 more | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 10:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:56 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 64 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:38 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:06 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 84 min |
| Jun 5, 3:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Cedar, Clarke and 33 more | 94 min |
| Jun 5, 3:59 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:46 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Johnson, Muscatine, Scott | 119 min |
| Jun 5, 9:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux and 1 more | 94 min |
| Jun 5, 9:35 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 9:55 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Fremont and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, Osceola | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 4:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 39 more | 95 min |
| Jun 5, 4:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 4:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:13 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 27 more | 92 min |
| Jun 5, 10:47 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:44 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cloud, Comanche, Ellsworth, Harper and 18 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 12:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more | 93 min |
| Jun 5, 3:38 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 30 more | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 3:50 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 33 more | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 2:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.