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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 140
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 11, 2014, 2:58 AM CDT for 5 counties in Iowa; 13 counties in Kansas; 37 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2014, 2:58 AM CDT (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2014, 9:55 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 55 counties
Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Smith County, KS, Washington County, KS, 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, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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
- 5%
- 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Phillips, Smith | 26 min |
| May 11, 3:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Phillips, Smith | 34 min |
| May 11, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Nuckolls, Webster | 48 min |
| May 11, 3:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 26 min |
| May 11, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 25 min |
| May 11, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 30 min |
| May 11, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Webster | 34 min |
| May 11, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward | 50 min |
| May 11, 7:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Otoe, Saunders, Seward | 37 min |
| May 11, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 1:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 11, 7:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie | 118 min |
| May 11, 9:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk and 64 more | 89 min |
| May 11, 10:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry and 19 more | 118 min |
| May 11, 11:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke, Clinton, Davis and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 116 min |
| May 11, 12:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appanoose, Cedar, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Dubuque and 14 more | 54 min |
| May 11, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 2:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk and 5 more | 84 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van Buren and 1 more | 66 min |
| May 11, 6:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery and 5 more | 67 min |
| May 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon and 60 more | 91 min |
| May 10, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Clay and 29 more | 96 min |
| May 11, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 15 more | 119 min |
| May 11, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Edwards and 25 more | 89 min |
| May 11, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders and 2 more | 89 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.