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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 311
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2016, 7:06 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado; 24 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2016, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2016, 2:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 26 counties
Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Hooker, Keya Paha, Rock and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 9:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Cherry, Custer, Hooker, Logan, McPherson and 1 more | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha and 2 more | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 10:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln, Logan | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 10:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Lincoln | 36 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers, Yuma | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherry | 118 min |
| Jun 29, 8:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garfield, Hooker and 6 more | 89 min |
| Jun 29, 9:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Boone, Buffalo, Clay, Frontier and 13 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.