Several rounds of severe storms moved across southern Nebraska during the evening hours, resulting in three tornadoes over Dundy and Red Willow counties. None of the tornadoes resulted in significant damage as they remained over open fields.
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The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
Several rounds of severe storms moved across southern Nebraska during the evening hours, resulting in three tornadoes over Dundy and Red Willow counties. None of the tornadoes resulted in significant damage as they remained over open fields.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 4:19 PM MST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 519 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 .DISCUSSION... 200 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LOW AND ASSOCIATED TROUGH CURRENTLY MOVING TOWARD THE FOUR CORNERS AREA WILL ROTATE ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY THEN NORTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA TUESDAY MORNING THEN CLOSE TO THE GREAT LAKES AREA BY THE END OF THE DAY WEDNESDAY WITH LARGE UPPER RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTRY. FOR TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT INCREASING MOISTURE AND JET DYNAMICS MOVE INTO FAR EASTERN COLORADO AFTER MIDNIGHT/EARLY MONDAY MORNING THEN ON TOP OF THE AREA BY 00Z TUESDAY. PRECIPITATION WILL INITIALLY BE LOCATED ACROSS THE FAR NORTH AND NORTHWEST/WEST TONIGHT INCREASING ACROSS THE WEST OVERNIGHT AS THE SYSTEM ADVANCES EAST. FOR MONDAY WIDESPREAD RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE AREA EXITING MONDAY NIGHT FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WITH THIS SYSTEM LIKELY TO EXCEED AN INCH WITH PERHAPS TWO INCHES...GENERALLY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST 1/3 OF THE AREA NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE. UNDER THE EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND PRECIPITATION TEMPERATURES WILL STRUGGLE INTO THE 60S AND LOW 70S...FURTHER EAST BY HILL CITY LOW 80S EXPECTED AS THEY WILL SEE MORE SUN AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS ALSO EXPECTED ACROSS THE WESTERN 1/2 OF THE AREA MONDAY. TUESDAY WILL ALSO BE WINDY FROM THE NORTHWEST BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE MORE SUNSHINE AND WARMER TEMPERATURES WITH MID 70S TO AROUND 80 EXPECTED. FOR WEDNESDAY A TAD WARMER WITH 80-85 ACROSS THE AREA. THURSDAY-SUNDAY...SEASONAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED WITH THE AREA IN BETWEEN UPPER HIGH TO THE SOUTH AND UPPER TROUGH ACROSS THE FAR NORTHERN PLAINS BY THE END OF THE PERIOD. LOOKS PRETTY DRY FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH PERHAPS SOME THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...CONFIDENCE IN WHERE AND WHEN NOT REAL HIGH. 007 && .AVIATION... 519 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 FOR THE OOZ TAFS...COMPLICATED WEATHER SCENARIO THIS TAF PERIOD. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NE CO AND SW NE AND MOVING NORTHEAST. HIGH RESOLUTION MODEL DEPICTING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING FROM NE CO INTO SW NE FROM 04-08Z. HAVE SHOWN THIS WITH A TEMPO TSRA AT KMCK...AND HAVE VCTS AT KGLD. WILL HAVE VCTS GOING AT BOTH TERMINALS TILL 12Z AT KGLD AND 14Z AT KMCK. AFTERWARDS...PRECIP ON THE BACKSIDE OF LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA. HAVE -SHRA AND VCTS WITH MVFR CIGS/VIS AT BOTH TERMINALS THROUGH END OF TAF PERIOD. CIGS/VIS MAY BOUNCE FROM MVFR TO IFR AT TIMES IN HEAVIER PRECIP. BAS && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 235 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-201200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 235 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 /335 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2011/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ACROSS YUMA COUNTY COLORADO AND FAR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA MONDAY EXITING FROM WEST TO EAST MONDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND THE RAIN MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. FOR TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70 THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
447 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011
NEZ079>081-192315-
DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW-
547 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 2011
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...HITCHCOCK
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND RED WILLOW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...
AT 443 PM MDT/543 PM CDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF HAIGLER TO MAX TO MCCOOK...MOVING
NORTH AT 20 MPH.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE.
&&
LAT...LON 4000 10020 4001 10205 4035 10205 4035 10020
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 252DEG 15KT 4013 10195 4016 10137
4025 10063
024The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:45 UTC.
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Storm chaser reported the tornado remained mostly over open fields in rural Dundy county. Newspaper accounts stated that one center pivot system was overturned, and a barn roof was damaged.
Storm chaser reported this second tornado north of Benkelman about 15 minutes after the first tornado. This tornado was west of Highway 61 and also remained over open fields with no known damage.
Storm chaser reported a large dusty tornado NNW of McCook. The county emergency manager did not receive any reports of damage from the tornado.
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