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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 209
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2016, 11:07 PM CDT for 23 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2016, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2016, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 23 counties
Adams County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes | 45 min |
| May 24, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 56 min |
| May 25, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper | 44 min |
| May 25, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 38 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Keith and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry, Sheridan | 58 min |
| May 24, 9:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Nuckolls, Pawnee, Richardson, Thayer | 86 min |
| May 24, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 6 hr |
| May 24, 10:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier and 15 more | 92 min |
| May 24, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln | 64 min |
| May 25, 3:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier and 8 more | 57 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Chase, Cherry and 16 more | 53 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.