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Tornado Watch 344
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 22, 2013, 2:13 PM MDT for 11 counties in Nebraska; 10 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2013, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2013, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 21 counties
Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Scotts Bluff | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 67 min |
| Jun 22, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 4:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner, Scotts Bluff | 31 min |
| Jun 22, 5:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding, Perkins, Ziebach | 79 min |
| Jun 22, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 48 min |
| Jun 22, 6:56 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne, Kimball | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 7:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Hooker and 7 more | 94 min |
| Jun 21, 8:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Cedar, Custer and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Grant and 7 more | 93 min |
| Jun 22, 1:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 2 more | 90 min |
| Jun 22, 2:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson and 15 more | 56 min |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Cheyenne, Custer, Dawson, Deuel, Dundy and 7 more | 90 min |
| Jun 22, 4:18 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dundy | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 4:56 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo and 52 more | 7 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.