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Tornado Watch 532
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 20, 2025, 5:24 PM CDT for 7 counties in Nebraska; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2025, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2025, 12:56 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Loup County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 17 min |
| Jul 20, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Mellette | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 19 min |
| Jul 20, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 31 min |
| Jul 20, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Loup, Rock | 38 min |
| Jul 20, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown, Garfield, Holt, Loup, Rock | 34 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 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 19, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 2 more | 85 min |
| Jul 19, 9:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Gage, Harlan and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Chase, Cherry, Dundy, Grant, Hayes and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Custer, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 2 more | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 11:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 4:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Harding, Perkins | 90 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.