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Tornado Watch 501
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 10, 2025, 3:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Iowa; 34 counties in Nebraska; Clay County, Union County, South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2025, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 40 counties
Harrison County, IA, Monona County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, Clay County, SD, Union County, SD
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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
- 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox, Pierce | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Merrick | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Madison, Pierce | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Howard | 26 min |
| Jul 10, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance, Polk | 15 min |
| Jul 10, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Madison, Pierce | 66 min |
| Jul 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton | 31 min |
| Jul 10, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick | 52 min |
| Jul 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Madison, Pierce | 16 min |
| Jul 10, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Wheeler | 43 min |
| Jul 10, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Stanton | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone | 28 min |
| Jul 10, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Madison, Pierce | 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 37 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Cass, Fremont, Madison, Montgomery and 4 more | 93 min |
| Jul 10, 12:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler and 34 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Henry, Iowa and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison, Ida, Mills, Monona and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 8:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Logan and 3 more | 94 min |
| Jul 9, 11:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Buffalo, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota and 13 more | 117 min |
| Jul 10, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Kearney and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dundy | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Chase, Clay, Dawson, Dundy and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dundy | 2 hr |
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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.