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Tornado Watch 282
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 7, 2010, 6:55 PM MDT for 16 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2010, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2010, 1:55 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Arthur County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Sheridan | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 8:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Thomas | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 9:04 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Hooker | 26 min |
| Jun 7, 9:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 9:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 9:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 10:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 7, 10:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Thomas | 43 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boulder, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Phillips and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Sedgwick | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 12:22 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 113 min |
| Jun 7, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 56 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 7, 10:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Chase and 45 more | 113 min |
| Jun 8, 1:56 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax and 28 more | 2 hr |
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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.