Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 390
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2012, 3:11 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2012, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2012, 10:04 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 52 min |
| Jun 14, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 18 min |
| Jun 14, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 27 min |
| Jun 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 23 min |
| Jun 14, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 18 min |
| Jun 14, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 16 min |
| Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 15 min |
| Jun 14, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wallace | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 22 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Logan, Norton and 8 more | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 27 more | 83 min |
| Jun 14, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 17 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2012Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2012Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2012
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.