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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 216
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 2017, 6:53 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 26 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2017, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2017, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Jewell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 52 min |
| May 15, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 42 min |
| May 15, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 22 min |
| May 15, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 41 min |
| May 15, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Franklin, Hall, Kearney, Webster | 61 min |
| May 15, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 40 min |
| May 15, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 51 min |
| May 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 35 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton and 13 more | 114 min |
| May 15, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 5:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jewell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 2 hr |
| May 15, 4:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 113 min |
| May 15, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Sheridan, Sioux | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2017Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2017Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2017
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.