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Tornado Watch 289

May 29, 202251 counties in Nebraska; 19 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 29, 2022, 7:16 PM CDT for 51 counties in Nebraska; 19 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2022, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2022, 3:34 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 70 counties

Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE, Aurora County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clay County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

54 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Loup	43 min
May 29, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Garfield, Loup, Rock	48 min
May 29, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Loup	48 min
May 29, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Logan, Thomas	38 min
May 29, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	49 min
May 29, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Logan	19 min
May 29, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock	50 min
May 29, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Custer, Loup, Rock	49 min
May 29, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	27 min
May 29, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brule, Charles Mix	36 min
May 29, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	23 min
May 29, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock	40 min
May 29, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock	52 min
May 29, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Gregory	44 min
May 29, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	27 min
May 29, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	51 min
May 29, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	35 min
May 29, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	49 min
May 29, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	28 min
May 29, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Sherman, Valley	28 min
May 29, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	42 min
May 29, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Boyd, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock, Wheeler	68 min
May 29, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	19 min
May 29, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	32 min
May 29, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory	38 min
May 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Greeley, Sherman, Valley	47 min
May 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Custer	32 min
May 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Miner, Sanborn	47 min
May 30, 12:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	41 min
May 30, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	23 min
May 30, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Wheeler	50 min
May 30, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Antelope, Knox	44 min
May 30, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	23 min
May 30, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld, Sanborn	49 min
May 30, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cedar, Knox	45 min
May 30, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	51 min
May 30, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	23 min
May 30, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Bon Homme, Yankton	45 min
May 30, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	26 min
May 30, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake, McCook and 2 more	41 min
May 30, 1:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Yankton	29 min
May 30, 1:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cedar, Knox	43 min
May 30, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer, Loup	24 min
May 30, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	42 min
May 30, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Turner	37 min
May 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Brookings, Lake, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody	32 min
May 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton	32 min
May 30, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Dixon	23 min
May 30, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner	34 min
May 30, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Minnehaha, Moody	47 min
May 30, 1:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln	32 min
May 30, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FSD	Lincoln, Union	45 min
May 30, 2:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	25 min
May 30, 3:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Lincoln, Turner, Yankton	26 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 9:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown and 43 more	89 min
May 29, 11:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Boyd, Cedar, Garfield, Holt, Keya Paha and 3 more	95 min
May 30, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dakota, Dixon	8 hr
May 30, 5:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, Douglas, Otoe, Sarpy, Washington	95 min
May 30, 9:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Dixon and 9 more	93 min
May 30, 11:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox and 5 more	92 min
May 30, 11:49 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 10 more	6 hr
May 30, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Dodge and 3 more	86 min
May 30, 1:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burt, Cass, Douglas, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe and 4 more	2 hr
May 30, 2:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Loup, Rock	87 min
May 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	5 hr
May 30, 2:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Marshall, Roberts	117 min
May 30, 2:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner, Union	84 min
May 30, 2:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Deuel, Grant	84 min
May 30, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts	7 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.