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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Hastings, NE

June 5, 2004Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 3:51 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2004, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 408 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-382 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 5, 11:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 11:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1130 AM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004

.DISCUSSION...JUST UPDATE PICTURES AND WORDS TO ACCOUNT FOR RECENT
TRENDS OF CLOUDS AND TO ADJUST PRECIPITATION CHANCES. DEBRIS CLOUDS
MOST PREVALENT OVER EASTERN AREAS AND TEMPERATURES WILL REFLECT
AS SUCH...AND 80S SOUTHWEST ZONES WITH MORE SUN. SOUTHWEST ZONES
WOULD PROBABLY BE THE FAVORED AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON
AS  THE TAIL END OF THE UPPER WAVE SLIDE BY AND SOME INCREASED LOW
LEVEL CONVERGENCE IN TROUGH AND HILL CITY. MOISTURE IS MARGINAL
THROUGHOUT...BUT AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM IS POSSIBLE.
MAIN ACTION SHOULD BE SOUTHEAST OF THE CWFA FOR THE MOST PART.

.PREV DISCUSSION...LL MASS FLUX WITHIN LLJ AXIS AND ELEVATED
INSTABILITY WEDGE POKING IN FM THE W AIDING CONVN THIS AM...
PARTICULARLY ACRS NC KS AND OVR NE SANDHILLS. FCST DILEMMA LIES
W/EVOLUTION OF SANDHILLS CONV CLUSTER THROUGH THIS AM AND POTENTIAL
FOR REDEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN ALG ADV WK FRONTAL BNDRY DROPPING OUT OF
THE DAKOTAS IN ASSOCN/W LEAD TROF.

GIVEN STEEP EML SPREADING OUT OVERTOP CWA THIS AM AND DEEP LL MSTR
PLUME IN PLACE...SEE NO REASON FOR DVLPG MCS OVR THE SANDHILLS OR
COMING OUT OF SW SD TO DECAY GIVEN FVRBL LLJ. EXTRAPOLATION PER 850-
300MB THICKNESSES CLIPS NE CORNER OF CWA BTWN 9-12Z W/SANDHILLS
ACTIVITY AND THRU 18Z W/SD LEFT OVERS IN LINE W/SHRT TERM RUCII
PROGS. OTHERWISE SUSPECT KS ACTIVITY WILL HAVE CLEARED THAT AREA BY
12Z. AFTN CHCS RELEGATED TO DEGREE OF DIURNAL RECOVERY AND DIFFICULT
TO ASCERTAIN AT THIS POINT. HWVR SYNOPTIC SIGNAL WEAK ESP IN REGARD
TO SUSTAINED CVRG ALG WK SFC BNDRY. ALTHOUGH GIVEN ENOUGH
DESTABILIZATION LIKE ETA PROGS...NO AT ALL OUT OF THE QN. FOR NOW
WILL CONCENTRATE ON AM ACTIVITY AND ADJUST POPS ACCORDINGLY. WILL
TRY REFINING AFT PD BUT TIME WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY SHORT AS FOCUS
SHIFTS QUICKLY INTO KS TONIGHT. HOPEFULLY IT PANS OUT.?

AFT THAT...WRN TROF/CNTRL US RIDGE DVLPMNT SIGNAL TORRID WEEK HERE.
PERHAPS A SHOT AT SOME NEEDED PRECIP THU NIGHT AT THE EARLIEST BUT
SIGNAL MIXED AT BEST THIS FAR OUT. HWVR WARMING UPR RIDGE LOOKS TO
FLIRT W/100 DEGREE READINGS ACRS THE SW QUARTER OF THE CWA BY MID
WEEK W/90S ELSEWHERE.

&&

.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
KS...NONE.

&&

EFFECTIVE JUNE 8 2004 THIS PRODUCT WILL HAVE THE ID CHANGED FROM
OMAAFDGRI...TO OMAAFDGID. FOR MORE INFORMATION CHECK OUT
THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS/USE LOWER CASE LETTERS:
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T/MORITZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 12:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1240 PM CDT SAT JUN 05 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1255 AM     HAIL             DOWNS                   39.50N 98.55W
06/05/2004  1.25 INCH        OSBORNE            KS   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

MKD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 12:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDWebster54 min
Jun 5, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne46 min
Jun 5, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne56 min
Jun 5, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks30 min
Jun 5, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.