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Tornado Watch 496
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 1, 2024, 3:58 PM CDT for 30 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2024, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2024, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 30 counties
Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson 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, 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 Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 41 min |
| Jul 1, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 51 min |
| Jul 1, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan, Phelps | 33 min |
| Jul 1, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 23 min |
| Jul 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 7 min |
| Jul 1, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 32 min |
| Jul 1, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Webster | 13 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill and 3 more | 119 min |
| Jul 1, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Box Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Garden, Grant, Morrill and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Clay, Custer, Dawson and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 10 more | 90 min |
| Jul 1, 6:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 17 more | 92 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.