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Tornado Watch 527

July 19, 202525 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 19, 2025, 2:16 PM MDT for 25 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 2025, 2:16 PM MDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2025, 7:59 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 25 counties

Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Wheeler County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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: 40%
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: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Arthur, Grant, Hooker	44 min
Jul 19, 2:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Hooker, McPherson, Thomas	42 min
Jul 19, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	50 min
Jul 19, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	44 min
Jul 19, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	40 min
Jul 19, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Logan, McPherson, Thomas	46 min
Jul 19, 3:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Arthur, Hooker, McPherson	44 min
Jul 19, 3:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Custer, Lincoln, Logan	38 min
Jul 19, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown	45 min
Jul 19, 3:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	41 min
Jul 19, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	49 min
Jul 19, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Lincoln, McPherson	46 min
Jul 19, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan, McPherson	44 min
Jul 19, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Custer, Lincoln	51 min
Jul 19, 4:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	49 min
Jul 19, 4:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Brown, Rock	40 min
Jul 19, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Dawson	41 min
Jul 19, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Lincoln	39 min
Jul 19, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock	38 min
Jul 19, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	18 min
Jul 19, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps	52 min
Jul 19, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Dawson, Gosper	50 min
Jul 19, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LBF	Lincoln	34 min
Jul 19, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Rock, Wheeler	53 min
Jul 19, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Frontier	39 min
Jul 19, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	42 min
Jul 19, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Phelps	37 min
Jul 19, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps	49 min
Jul 19, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier, Hayes	49 min
Jul 19, 6:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield, Holt, Wheeler	52 min
Jul 19, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Frontier	46 min
Jul 19, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	51 min
Jul 19, 6:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LBF	Frontier	47 min
Jul 19, 6:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	38 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

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 393 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: 1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 1:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Sedgwick	2 hr
Jul 19, 3:49 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	116 min
Jul 18, 6:19 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Hooker and 6 more	116 min
Jul 18, 7:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Antelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Cedar, Custer and 16 more	7 hr
Jul 18, 8:01 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blaine, Brown, Loup	59 min
Jul 18, 10:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Blaine, Boone, Boyd, Brown, Burt and 26 more	90 min
Jul 19, 2:42 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	2 hr
Jul 19, 4:18 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Antelope, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 14 more	117 min
Jul 19, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Franklin, Furnas, Hall and 7 more	5 hr
Jul 19, 4:52 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Furnas, Garfield, Gosper and 7 more	83 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.