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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 208
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2014, 1:37 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2014, 1:37 PM MDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2014, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Carter County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Dawes County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Converse County, WY, Crook County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook, Weston | 66 min |
| Jun 3, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook, Weston | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Pennington | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 12:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River | 114 min |
| Jun 3, 1:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Daniels, Dawson, Fergus, Garfield, McCone and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Powder River | 65 min |
| Jun 3, 2:02 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Keya Paha and 6 more | 118 min |
| Jun 3, 6:00 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Garfield, Greeley, Holt, Howard and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 11:07 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Cedar and 15 more | 83 min |
| Jun 3, 12:12 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Brown, Buffalo and 55 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 7 more | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 2:11 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Deuel, Garden, Grant and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming and 18 more | 87 min |
| Jun 3, 3:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Douglas, Nemaha, Sarpy, Washington | 83 min |
| Jun 3, 3:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay and 36 more | 96 min |
| Jun 3, 4:59 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass and 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.