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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 310
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2024, 6:27 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 34 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2024, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Chase County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy 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, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 28 min |
| May 25, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 36 min |
| May 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 37 min |
| May 25, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 27 min |
| May 25, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Webster | 43 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
175
WWUS20 KWNS 252324
SEL0
SPC WW 252324
COZ000-KSZ000-NEZ000-260600-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 310
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
625 PM CDT Sat May 25 2024
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Northeast Colorado
Northwest Kansas
Southwest and Central Nebraska
* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 625 PM
until 100 AM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
inches in diameter possible
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are forecast to develop this
evening and potentially be capable of severe gusts and large hail.
A couple of severe clusters may evolve with time as this activity
moves east across southern Nebraska through the evening and into the
early overnight hours.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55
statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles west southwest
of Imperial NE to 40 miles east of Grand Island NE. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are
favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening
weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible
warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce
tornadoes.
&&
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 306...WW 307...WW
308...WW 309...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
24030.
...SmithSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Pratt and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 13 more | 11 hr |
| May 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more | 83 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.