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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 459
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 1, 2013, 6:07 PM CDT for 32 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2013, 6:07 PM CDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Merrick | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Nuckolls, Thayer | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 23 more | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte, Brown and 52 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 26 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte and 57 more | 95 min |
| Aug 1, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hitchcock | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dundy, Hitchcock | 5 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson and 11 more | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 6:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garfield, Grant and 13 more | 86 min |
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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.