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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 221
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2014, 5:12 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2014, 5:12 PM MDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2014, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 46 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Lincoln County, CO, Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Washington | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Fall River | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 5:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Fall River | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes, Sioux | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Meade, Perkins | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 6:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Pennington | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 7:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Lincoln, Washington | 22 min |
| Jun 4, 7:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 57 min |
| Jun 4, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Kimball | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 8:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 9:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 40 min |
| Jun 4, 10:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 10:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 10:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 11:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 11:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 11:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 12:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 12:45 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 30 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
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 8:20 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 11:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Leavenworth, Marshall and 1 more | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass and 34 more | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 12:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dawes, Sioux | 92 min |
| Jun 4, 1:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade and 1 more | 6 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.