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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 426
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 30, 2016, 8:32 PM MDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 9 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2016, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2016, 3:46 AM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 33 counties
Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawes 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, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 9:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington and 1 more | 78 min |
| Jul 30, 10:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 43 min |
| Jul 30, 10:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 11:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd | 53 min |
| Jul 30, 11:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 12:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 1:51 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 2:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 53 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Buffalo, Cherry and 28 more | 92 min |
| Jul 30, 10:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Custer and 13 more | 117 min |
| Jul 30, 11:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Dawson and 15 more | 97 min |
| Jul 31, 12:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux | 90 min |
| Jul 31, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cherry, Cheyenne, Dawes and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dewey, Hughes, Hyde, Jones, Lyman, Potter and 3 more | 86 min |
| Jul 30, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Hughes, Hyde, Jones, Lyman, Potter and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 30, 8:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hughes, Hyde, Jones, Lyman, Stanley | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 1:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Corson, Harding, Perkins, Ziebach | 2 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.