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Tornado Watch 140

April 26, 20244 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2024, 12:52 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2024, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 68 counties

Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Ida County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Brown County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson	61 min
Apr 26, 1:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GID	Greeley, Howard	44 min
Apr 26, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	12 min
Apr 26, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	25 min
Apr 26, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline, Seward	41 min
Apr 26, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney	30 min
Apr 26, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	61 min
Apr 26, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GID	Greeley, Howard, Nance	52 min
Apr 26, 1:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline	51 min
Apr 26, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Saline, Seward	19 min
Apr 26, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Seward	49 min
Apr 26, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Boone	48 min
Apr 26, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	52 min
Apr 26, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Greeley, Nance	40 min
Apr 26, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Boone	46 min
Apr 26, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cass, Lancaster, Saunders	44 min
Apr 26, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Madison, Platte	39 min
Apr 26, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	51 min
Apr 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	31 min
Apr 26, 2:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Butler	51 min
Apr 26, 3:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observed	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders	42 min
Apr 26, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone	13 min
Apr 26, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison, Platte	49 min
Apr 26, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison, Pierce	36 min
Apr 26, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Saunders	23 min
Apr 26, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saunders	38 min
Apr 26, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Madison, Platte	48 min
Apr 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	46 min
Apr 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saunders	46 min
Apr 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison	43 min
Apr 26, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie	49 min
Apr 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cass, Sarpy	47 min
Apr 26, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	27 min
Apr 26, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Platte	39 min
Apr 26, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont	51 min
Apr 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe, Sarpy	46 min
Apr 26, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison, Pierce, Platte	42 min
Apr 26, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte	28 min
Apr 26, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee	52 min
Apr 26, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Nemaha	17 min
Apr 26, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	46 min
Apr 26, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington	42 min
Apr 26, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills	41 min
Apr 26, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	OAX	Harrison	38 min
Apr 26, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	52 min
Apr 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	13 min
Apr 26, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	49 min
Apr 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	3 hr
Apr 26, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison	41 min
Apr 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	25 min
Apr 26, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Madison, Pierce, Platte, Stanton	18 min
Apr 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	13 min
Apr 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	37 min
Apr 26, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills	27 min
Apr 26, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison	57 min
Apr 26, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	55 min
Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie	51 min
Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison, Monona	65 min
Apr 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery	20 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observed	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	61 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	46 min
Apr 26, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	44 min
Apr 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison, Monona	40 min
Apr 26, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Richardson	30 min
Apr 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne	25 min
Apr 26, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt	51 min
Apr 26, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby	28 min
Apr 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie	49 min
Apr 26, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Brown	18 min
Apr 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Richardson	31 min
Apr 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observed	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	55 min
Apr 26, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Holt	35 min
Apr 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Montgomery, Page	36 min
Apr 26, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Monona	18 min
Apr 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	41 min
Apr 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Nodaway	53 min
Apr 26, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	27 min
Apr 26, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Atchison, Holt, Nodaway	26 min
Apr 26, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby	24 min
Apr 26, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	13 min
Apr 26, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Page	11 min
Apr 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby	47 min
Apr 26, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Gentry, Nodaway, Worth	39 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 518 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 707 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 12:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie	54 min
Apr 26, 1:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay and 18 more	86 min
Apr 26, 2:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie	89 min
Apr 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun and 27 more	8 hr
Apr 26, 5:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford and 14 more	84 min
Apr 25, 7:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 9 more	2 hr
Apr 25, 7:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Norton, Rawlins and 2 more	57 min
Apr 25, 9:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Norton, Phillips and 5 more	55 min
Apr 25, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Norton, Phillips and 5 more	3 hr
Apr 26, 12:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Norton	54 min
Apr 26, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua	2 hr
Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford and 7 more	6 hr
Apr 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chase, Coffey and 17 more	119 min
Apr 26, 7:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, McDonald, Newton	115 min
Apr 26, 3:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Cass, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas, Johnson and 5 more	61 min

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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.