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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 340
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 21, 2013, 5:31 PM MDT for 15 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2013, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2013, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 21 counties
Arthur County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 5:55 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 49 min |
| Jun 21, 6:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, Perkins | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, McPherson | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Logan, McPherson, Thomas | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 8:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 8:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 52 min |
| Jun 21, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 51 min |
| Jun 21, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Lincoln, Loup | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 9:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Keya Paha, Rock | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 9:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 51 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 21, 1:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill and 3 more | 93 min |
| Jun 21, 1:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Grant, Hooker and 4 more | 91 min |
| Jun 20, 8:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark and 19 more | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 6:49 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Custer, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 8:09 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:01 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Butte and 29 more | 89 min |
| Jun 21, 12:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 5 more | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 12:58 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 2:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Deuel, Grant, Lake, Moody | 86 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.