Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 201
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2014, 1:28 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2014, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 102 counties
Buena Vista County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Clay County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Plymouth, Sioux | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Furnas, Gosper | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Woodbury | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sioux | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Plymouth, Sioux | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 3:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Woodbury | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lyon, Sioux | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 3:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, O'Brien, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Butler, Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, O'Brien | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 20 min |
| Jun 1, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Cherokee, Ida, Woodbury | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Osborne, Smith | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 28 min |
| Jun 1, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 10 min |
| Jun 1, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic, Washington | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 49 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 833 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clay, Emmet, Floyd and 12 more | 85 min |
| Jun 1, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola and 3 more | 86 min |
| Jun 1, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Harrison, Ida and 9 more | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 4:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 27 more | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Seward | 96 min |
| Jun 1, 1:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 29 more | 114 min |
| Jun 1, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 35 more | 91 min |
| Jun 1, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 20 more | 85 min |
| May 31, 8:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sioux | 118 min |
| Jun 1, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Deuel and 7 more | 96 min |
| Jun 1, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Chase, Cherry, Custer, Deuel and 12 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.