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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Hastings, NE

June 5, 2004Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 4:10 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 4:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 12:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 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

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MKD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	54 min
Jun 5, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	46 min
Jun 5, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	56 min
Jun 5, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	30 min
Jun 5, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004 Every 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.