Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 304
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 28, 2016, 1:37 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2016, 1:37 PM MDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 50 counties
Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO, 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, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Thomas 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, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Todd County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Converse County, WY, Crook County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
53 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 67 min |
| Jun 28, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 65 min |
| Jun 28, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Weston | 31 min |
| Jun 28, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Fall River | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse, Niobrara | 38 min |
| Jun 28, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse, Platte | 44 min |
| Jun 28, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 24 min |
| Jun 28, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Fall River | 77 min |
| Jun 28, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Pennington | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Platte | 28 min |
| Jun 28, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse, Niobrara | 28 min |
| Jun 28, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 54 min |
| Jun 28, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Meade, Pennington | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 76 min |
| Jun 28, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Scotts Bluff | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Oglala Lakota | 37 min |
| Jun 28, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 24 min |
| Jun 28, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 6:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 25 min |
| Jun 28, 6:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 20 min |
| Jun 28, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Garden, Grant, Sheridan | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 6:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Grant | 34 min |
| Jun 28, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 59 min |
| Jun 28, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Morrill | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 28 min |
| Jun 28, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Garden, Grant, Hooker, McPherson | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Sedgwick | 42 min |
| Jun 28, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 7:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Adams, Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick | 57 min |
| Jun 28, 8:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 26 min |
| Jun 28, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson | 35 min |
| Jun 28, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Lincoln, Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 8:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Custer, Logan, Loup, Rock and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 8:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln, Perkins | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 46 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer, Logan, Morgan and 4 more | 61 min |
| Jun 28, 12:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 95 min |
| Jun 28, 4:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux | 94 min |
| Jun 28, 5:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Hooker and 1 more | 24 min |
| Jun 28, 11:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Custer, Lawrence, Pennington | 58 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.