Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 457
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 9, 2014, 3:03 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 48 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2014, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2014, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 67 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Adams County, NE, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Wallace | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 55 min |
| Aug 9, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 17 min |
| Aug 9, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Logan, Thomas | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 58 min |
| Aug 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Aug 9, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 66 min |
| Aug 9, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 21 min |
| Aug 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Sherman | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 9:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Kearney and 1 more | 42 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Norton, Phillips, Republic, Smith | 87 min |
| Aug 9, 2:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 12 more | 119 min |
| Aug 9, 5:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 8 more | 88 min |
| Aug 9, 5:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 16 more | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton and 8 more | 95 min |
| Aug 9, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Frontier and 16 more | 94 min |
| Aug 9, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Garden, Morrill and 3 more | 67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.