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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 562
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2011, 6:56 PM MDT for 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2011, 6:56 PM MDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2011, 2:00 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, Blaine County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Garden, Grant, Sheridan | 38 min |
| Jun 26, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 15 min |
| Jun 26, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Blaine, Cherry, Hooker, Logan, McPherson and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Loup | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Loup | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 10:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 10:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Garfield, Loup, Wheeler | 15 min |
| Jun 26, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 40 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 154 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
- 2662 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 6:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Cherry, Garden, Grant and 7 more | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 7:02 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 10:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Buffalo, Garfield, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton and 7 more | 57 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.