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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 249
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2015, 9:25 PM CDT for 20 counties in Nebraska; Charles Mix County, Gregory County, Tripp County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2015, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2015, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 23 counties
Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Charles Mix County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Grant, Hooker, McPherson | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer, Logan | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman, Valley | 51 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer and 17 more | 89 min |
| Jun 2, 11:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Greeley and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Greeley and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd and 66 more | 89 min |
| Jun 3, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff | 86 min |
| Jun 3, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Webster | 115 min |
| Jun 3, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas, Gage and 11 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.