Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Watches in 2013
Tornado Watch 240
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 29, 2013, 1:04 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 44 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2013, 1:04 PM CDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 58 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell 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, Adams County, NE, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
96 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 36 min |
| May 29, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| May 29, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 43 min |
| May 29, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 53 min |
| May 29, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 29, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 43 min |
| May 29, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 53 min |
| May 29, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton | 37 min |
| May 29, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 31 min |
| May 29, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 47 min |
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 45 min |
| May 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 51 min |
| May 29, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 33 min |
| May 29, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 33 min |
| May 29, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 32 min |
| May 29, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 30 min |
| May 29, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 51 min |
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 35 min |
| May 29, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay | 32 min |
| May 29, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 42 min |
| May 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 54 min |
| May 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 53 min |
| May 29, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 51 min |
| May 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 29, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 55 min |
| May 29, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 24 min |
| May 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 45 min |
| May 29, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 56 min |
| May 29, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 38 min |
| May 29, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 32 min |
| May 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 54 min |
| May 29, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 53 min |
| May 29, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton, Nuckolls | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| May 29, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, York | 26 min |
| May 29, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 5 hr |
| May 29, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| May 29, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 28 min |
| May 29, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Polk, York | 41 min |
| May 29, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 23 min |
| May 29, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, York | 36 min |
| May 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 29, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 28 min |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 3 hr |
| May 29, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 42 min |
| May 29, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer | 25 min |
| May 29, 4:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Custer | 3 hr |
| May 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| May 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 30 min |
| May 29, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Furnas, Gosper | 44 min |
| May 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 28 min |
| May 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 27 min |
| May 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| May 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 36 min |
| May 29, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk, York | 32 min |
| May 29, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer, Garfield, Loup | 32 min |
| May 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 38 min |
| May 29, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Polk, York | 30 min |
| May 29, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk, York | 27 min |
| May 29, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt | 41 min |
| May 29, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| May 29, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 29, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 47 min |
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt, Wheeler | 41 min |
| May 29, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Custer, Loup | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Garfield | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 34 min |
| May 29, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 24 min |
| May 29, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 47 min |
| May 29, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 43 min |
| May 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 56 min |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 48 min |
| May 29, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 30 min |
| May 29, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Sheridan | 60 min |
| May 29, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 56 min |
| May 29, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Custer | 3 hr |
| May 29, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 18 min |
| May 29, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 44 min |
| May 29, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 20 min |
| May 29, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Phillips, Smith | 43 min |
| May 29, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 45 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 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 13 more | 114 min |
| May 28, 7:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 14 more | 113 min |
| May 28, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and 2 more | 55 min |
| May 29, 11:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche | 2 hr |
| May 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins and 4 more | 53 min |
| May 29, 3:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 32 more | 60 min |
| May 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Cowley and 24 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 6 more | 66 min |
| May 29, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Morris and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 6:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey, Cowley, Elk and 4 more | 85 min |
| May 29, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Custer, Hooker, Lincoln, Logan, Loup and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 29, 8:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Burt, Butler and 42 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 10 more | 87 min |
| May 29, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 26 more | 4 hr |
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.