Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 652
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 3, 2009, 8:02 PM CDT for 30 counties in Nebraska; 20 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2009, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2009, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 50 counties
Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Douglas | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, McPherson | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 22 min |
| Aug 3, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Lincoln, Logan | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Frontier, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Howard, Sherman | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 2:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk | 48 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 2272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Chase, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 6 more | 119 min |
| Aug 3, 10:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 40 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Clay, Dawson and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more | 96 min |
| Aug 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden, Morrill and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 56 min |
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.