Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2004, 9:11 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2004, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2004, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fillmore County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.2
- Supercell composite
- 16.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KGID 230213 FFWGID NEC059-230800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 911 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 300 AM CDT * AT 909 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR GENEVA...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF YORK. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...GENEVA...MILLIGAN...AND STRANG. FLOODING IS ESPECIALLY EXPECTED IN THE TURKEY CREEK EAST OF GENEVA. LAT...LON 4039 9780 4038 9739 4069 9741 4065 9779 $$
2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS73 KGID 230333
FFSGID
NEC059-230800-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1034 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 300 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
SOUTHEASTERN FILLMORE
AT 1022 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN
OVER THE COUNTY. THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE COUNTY WAS HIT THE
HARDEST WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ESTIMATED TO HAVE FALLEN. SOME OF THE
RIVERS WHICH MAY SEE FLOODING OVERNIGHT INCLUDE TURKEY CREEK...THE
BIG SANDY...AND THE DRY SANDY.
THE FILLMORE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER SUGGESTS NO TRAVEL IN THE
SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY
TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN HASTINGS.
LAT...LON 4042 9768 4034 9768 4035 9736 4070 9738
&
$$
NELSON000 WGUS73 KGID 230524 FFSGID NEC059-169-230600- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1223 AM CDT SUN MAY 23 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FILLMORE AND THAYER COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA HAVE BEEN CANCELLED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED. LAT...LON 4068 9782 4004 9777 4002 9739 4067 9741 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 43 min |
| May 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper, York | 64 min |
| May 22, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 17 min |
| May 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 16 min |
| May 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 59 min |
| May 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Nuckolls | 58 min |
| May 22, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 57 min |
| May 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 55 min |
| May 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 44 min |
| May 22, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Phelps | 58 min |
| May 22, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 42 min |
| May 22, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 67 min |
| May 22, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 66 min |
| May 22, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 49 min |
| May 22, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 61 min |
| May 22, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 58 min |
| May 22, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 56 min |
| May 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 53 min |
| May 22, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 25 min |
| May 22, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 36 min |
| May 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 53 min |
| May 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 66 min |
| May 22, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 30 min |
| May 22, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 49 min |
| May 22, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Thayer | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.