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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 337
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 7, 2020, 1:02 AM CDT for 18 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2020, 1:02 AM CDT (06:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2020, 5:19 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Antelope County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Holt County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Rock County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt, Rock | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 2:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce | 25 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Burt, Colfax, Dodge, Madison, Platte | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 12:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antelope, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Holt and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Dawes, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 85 min |
| Jul 6, 9:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Buffalo, Haakon, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 9 more | 83 min |
| Jul 6, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aurora, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix and 18 more | 4 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.