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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 221

June 4, 20144 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Washington37 min
Jun 4, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Fall River65 min
Jun 4, 5:33 PM MDTTornado WarningUNRFall River27 min
Jun 4, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes, Sioux29 min
Jun 4, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRButte, Meade, Perkins54 min
Jun 4, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUWashington45 min
Jun 4, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan62 min
Jun 4, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett, Jackson59 min
Jun 4, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach46 min
Jun 4, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Pennington40 min
Jun 4, 6:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry53 min
Jun 4, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan46 min
Jun 4, 7:38 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUArapahoe, Lincoln, Washington22 min
Jun 4, 7:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln32 min
Jun 4, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte42 min
Jun 4, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry, Sheridan57 min
Jun 4, 8:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner, Kimball35 min
Jun 4, 8:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBOULincoln28 min
Jun 4, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDKit Carson46 min
Jun 4, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Morrill33 min
Jun 4, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner, Morrill, Scotts Bluff33 min
Jun 4, 8:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden, Sheridan62 min
Jun 4, 9:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln40 min
Jun 4, 10:11 PM MDTTornado WarningBOUElbert, Lincoln34 min
Jun 4, 10:32 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedBOULincoln43 min
Jun 4, 10:54 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson36 min
Jun 4, 11:23 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson37 min
Jun 4, 11:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson3 hr
Jun 4, 11:58 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne47 min
Jun 5, 12:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne53 min
Jun 5, 12:45 AM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGLDCheyenne30 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2014-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2014-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 4:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLogan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma64 min
Jun 3, 8:20 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall, Nemaha4 hr
Jun 3, 8:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more64 min
Jun 3, 11:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Leavenworth, Marshall and 1 more62 min
Jun 3, 11:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more3 hr
Jun 3, 6:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Blaine, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass and 34 more56 min
Jun 4, 12:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDawes, Sioux92 min
Jun 4, 1:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCButte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade and 1 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2014

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.