Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2004, 10:32 AM CST for Howard County, Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 29, 2004, 10:32 AM CST (16:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2004, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 29, 5:25 AM CST, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 5:25 AM CST, 5 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 525 AM CST MON MAR 29 2004 .DISCUSSION...UPDATE OUT TO MENTION ISOLATED SHOWERS THIS MORNING ASSOCIATED WITH SECOND S/W MENTIONED BELOW. KLXN REPORTED RA AT THE TOP OF LAST HOUR...AND ACTIVITY INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS IT HEADS SE. && .PREV DISCUSSION...UPPER TROF BEGINS TO SHIFT EAST TODAY WITH SHORTWAVES ROUNDING WESTERN SIDE BIGGEST THORN OF SHORT TERM. AT LEAST 3 DISTINCT SHORTWAVES EVIDENT TO SOME DEGREE VIA OBSERVATIONAL DATA...I.E., 88DS/SATELLITE/PROFILERS. FIRST...NOW MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST KS...WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOWER ACTIVITY EARLIER ACROSS SRN HALF OF CWA. SECOND TRYING TO DO THE SAME ATTM OVER SW NEB. THIRD...AND STRONGEST OF THE TRIO PER WV SAT...NOW HEADING S ACROSS THE WRN DAKOTAS. ELEVATED SHOWERS/VIRGA ASSOCIATED WITH SECOND WAVE NOW MOVING ACROSS WRN COUNTIES. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR 88D TRENDS...BUT EXPECT LITTLE OF THIS TO REACH THE GROUND. BIGGER CHALLENGE IS POSSIBILITY OF HIGH BASED SHOWERS THIS AFT/EVE ACROSS ERN 1/2 OF FORECAST AREA W/ PASSAGE OF THIS WAVE. META FORECAST SOUNDINGS NEAR FAIRMONT SHOW AROUND 350 J/KG ABV ROUGHLY 800MB...W/ LAPSE RATES OF 7-8C/KM IN THE 750-500 MB LAYER. SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY...ALBEIT MARGINAL...TO POP SOME SHOWERS AND PERHAPS AN ISOLATED CLAP OF THUNDER BEFORE ACTIVITY MOVES OUT OF AREA AFTER SUNSET. WILL INSERT A SMALL POP/SLT -RW MENTION EAST OF HIGHWAY 281 STARTING AROUND NOON. S/W DRAGS COOLER AIR INTO THE PLAINS FOR TONIGHT...AND ONCE HERE...DON/T THINK IT WILL GO ANWHERE QUICK WITH UPPER TROF CUTTING OFF ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY...KEEPING THE FORECAST AREA IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. GFS/ETA IN FAIRLY DECENT AGREEMENT IN COOLDWON...SO LOWERED TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE BOARD BY A GOOD CATEGORY TUE AND WED. OTHERWISE...DRY THROUGH THIS TIME PERIOD LOOKS OKAY. MINIMAL CHANGES MADE AT THIS TIME TO DAYS 5-7. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .NE...NONE. .KS...NONE. && VII
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 29, 5:00 AM CST, 5 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 500 AM CST MON MAR 29 2004 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-301200- ADAMS-BUFFALO-CLAY-DAWSON-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-FURNAS-GOSPER-GREELEY- HALL-HAMILTON-HARLAN-HOWARD-JEWELL-KEARNEY-MERRICK-MITCHELL-NANCE- NUCKOLLS-OSBORNE-PHELPS-PHILLIPS-POLK-ROOKS-SHERMAN-SMITH-THAYER- VALLEY-WEBSTER-YORK- 500 AM CST MON MAR 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. VII
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.