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Tornado Watch 365

June 23, 202321 counties in Nebraska; 16 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 23, 2023, 5:17 PM MDT for 21 counties in Nebraska; 16 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2023, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2023, 1:06 AM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 37 counties

Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes 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, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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: 30%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 10%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	54 min
Jun 23, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding	53 min
Jun 23, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Meade	60 min
Jun 23, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence	63 min
Jun 23, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Oglala Lakota, Pennington	65 min
Jun 23, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	UNR	Meade	66 min
Jun 23, 7:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	49 min
Jun 23, 7:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	42 min
Jun 23, 7:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Sheridan	41 min
Jun 23, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	67 min
Jun 23, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Mellette	60 min
Jun 23, 7:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	65 min
Jun 23, 8:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	23 min
Jun 23, 8:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Deuel, Garden	44 min
Jun 23, 8:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Keith	42 min
Jun 23, 8:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins	70 min
Jun 23, 8:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry, Sheridan	38 min
Jun 23, 8:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Pennington	53 min
Jun 23, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel	46 min
Jun 23, 8:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon	54 min
Jun 23, 8:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Mellette	63 min
Jun 23, 8:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	36 min
Jun 23, 8:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson	53 min
Jun 23, 8:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	50 min
Jun 23, 8:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Grant, Sheridan	49 min
Jun 23, 8:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Ziebach	64 min
Jun 23, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Garden, Grant, Keith	48 min
Jun 23, 9:01 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Deuel, Garden	3 hr
Jun 23, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Keith	41 min
Jun 23, 9:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	6 hr
Jun 23, 9:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	51 min
Jun 23, 9:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Pennington	5 hr
Jun 23, 9:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson	42 min
Jun 23, 9:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Mellette	35 min
Jun 23, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Deuel, Garden, Keith	48 min
Jun 23, 9:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Grant	46 min
Jun 23, 9:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Sheridan	50 min
Jun 23, 9:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson, Mellette	35 min
Jun 23, 10:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Keith, Lincoln, McPherson, Perkins	51 min
Jun 23, 10:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	46 min
Jun 23, 10:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson, Mellette	54 min
Jun 23, 10:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry, Garden, Grant, Sheridan	30 min
Jun 23, 10:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Cherry	39 min
Jun 23, 10:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Todd, Tripp	63 min
Jun 23, 10:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker, Keith, Lincoln, Logan and 3 more	47 min
Jun 23, 10:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Thomas	39 min
Jun 23, 10:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keya Paha	64 min
Jun 23, 10:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Hooker, Lincoln, Logan, McPherson, Perkins, Thomas	48 min
Jun 23, 11:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	60 min
Jun 23, 11:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Boyd, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	5 hr
Jun 23, 11:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha, Rock, Thomas	54 min
Jun 23, 11:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Todd, Tripp	36 min
Jun 24, 12:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock	48 min
Jun 24, 12:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Todd, Tripp	47 min
Jun 24, 12:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garfield, Holt and 3 more	39 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 1:28 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 23, 2:22 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more	9 hr
Jun 23, 4:55 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry, Dawes and 11 more	2 hr
Jun 23, 5:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Scotts Bluff, Sioux	91 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.