Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2004, 12:44 AM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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 15, 2004, 12:44 AM CDT (05:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 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 Jun 14, 9:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 905 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 .DISCUSSION...H85 BOUNDARY NOW FIRING IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND JUST CLIPPING OUR SOUTHEAST ZONES AT THIS TIME. THIS SHOWS UP VERY WELL ON PROFILERS. MORE SHOWERS/STORMS SLIPPING FROM THE WEST AS A SHORT WAVE APPROACHES. MOISTURE IS NOT BEGINNING TO SHIFT BACK INTO WESTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. EXPECT THIS AREA TO INCREASE IN AERIAL COVERAGE AS MODERATE LOW LEVEL JET SETS UP AND MORE MOISTURE BECOMES AVAILABLE. ISOLATED HAILER POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. FOR TOMORROW...POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING COULD LOOM LARGE FOR EASTERN CWFA. && .PREV DISCUSSION...SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH 12Z THURSDAY...SURFACE BOUNDARY HAS DRIFTED SOUTH THROUGH THE MORNING AND IS MOSTLY OUT OF FORECAST AREA. HAVE KEPT SOME LOW POPS IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST SHOULD THERE BE SOME DEVELOPMENT TO THE NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY. THIS BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN AND DRIFT FURTHER SOUTH DURING THE EVENING AS ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND COOL FRONT DEVELOPS ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE ROCKIES. AS THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY TO THE EAST TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF IT. A LOW LEVEL JET IS ALSO EXPECTED TO PUSH WARM MOIST AIR INTO THE AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT...FURTHER ENHANCING THE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST ON TUESDAY...FINALLY MOVING THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. THIS FRONT WILL SETTLE IN JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THIS CONTINUES THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...MOSTLY IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. TEMPERATURES ALSO PROVE INTERESTING DURING THIS FORECAST PERIOD. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...TUESDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL BE QUITE WARM WITH SOUTH WINDS PUMPING IN WARM MOIST AIR. THEN AFTER THE FRONT PASSES THE TEMPERATURES SHOULD COOL AROUND 15 DEGREES FROM HIGHS TUESDAY. LONG TERM...ZONAL FLOW FORECAST TO PREVAIL INTO THE WEEKEND. A FEW SHORT WAVES WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA IN FAST FLOW. ONE WAVE COMES THROUGH LATE IN THE DAY ON THURSDAY AND WILL CONTINUE A SMALL CHANCE FOR STORMS IN THE EVENING...AS IT APPEARS THAT STORMS WOULD FIRE TO THE WEST AND MOVE TO THE EAST. QUESTION WILL BE ON THIS IS IF THERE IS ENOUGH MOISTURE AVAILABLE TO GET STORMS THIS FAR. CURRENT FORECAST HAS SMALL CHANCES AND WILL KEEP THEM GOING AS THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR A FEW STORMS. NEXT SYSTEM HAS A LITTLE MORE GOING FOR IT AS A COLD FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE AREA LATE IN THE DAY ON FRIDAY. MOISTURE APPEARS TO BE AVAILABLE FOR THIS SYSTEM TO WORK AND WITH MORE UPPER SUPPORT...FEEL CHANCES ARE BETTER FOR STORMS. HAVE ADDED CHANCES FOR THE FORECAST AREA AS FRONT COMES THROUGH IN A FAVORED DEVELOPMENT TIME. SURFACE HIGH BUILDS INTO THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL MAKE TEMPS A QUESTION. BEING THE LONGEST DAYS OF THE YEAR...SHOULD BE ENOUGH SUN TO TRY TO WARM THINGS UP...BUT GIVEN NEW AIRMASS...TEMPS SHOULD BE CLOSER TO NORMAL. HAVE TRIMMED FORECAST HIGHS BACK SOME...BUT WILL NEED TO CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS AS MODELS DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE GOOD HANDLE ON THIS YET. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. && JCB/KISNER/MORITZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 11:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1116 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-151200- BUFFALO-DAWSON-GREELEY-HALL-HAMILTON-HOWARD-MERRICK-NANCE-POLK- SHERMAN-VALLEY-YORK- 1116 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA... BEGINNING FIRST WEST OF KEARNEY...AND THE MOVING EAST BY DAWN. A FEW STORMS MAY BE ON THE STRONG SIDE...AND PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IN GENERAL...WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS BETWEEN 1 AND 5 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO LATE TUESDAY MORNING...AND MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. A FRONT WILL SLIP SOUTH INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND BE THE FOCUS FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS. THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY HAZARD. IN ADDITION TO HAIL...A MOISTURE LADEN ATMOSPHERE AND WEAK WIND FIELDS WILL PROMOTE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SOME LOCATIONS COULD TALLY OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN TUESDAY NIGHT. FLOODING MAY BE A PROBLEM IN SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 281 AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE REGION WILL ALSO SEE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB-PAGE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ072>077-082>087-151200- ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-FURNAS-GOSPER-HARLAN-JEWELL-KEARNEY- MITCHELL-NUCKOLLS-OSBORNE-PHELPS-PHILLIPS-ROOKS-SMITH-THAYER-WEBSTER- 1116 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 4 AM... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRAVERSE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE... WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE. THE STORMS WILL FIRST MOVE INTO AND DEVELOP ALONG A PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS TO ELWOOD NEBRASKA LINE. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST...WITH A FEW BEING SEVERE. HEAVY RAINFALL ON AN ISOLATED BASIS IS POSSIBLE... WITH A FEW SPOTS PICKING UP CLOSE TO ONE INCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO LATE TUESDAY MORNING...AND MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. A FRONT WILL SLIP SOUTH INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND BE THE FOCUS FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS. THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY HAZARD. IN ADDITION TO HAIL...A MOISTURE LADEN ATMOSPHERE AND WEAK WIND FIELDS WILL PROMOTE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. SOME LOCATIONS COULD TALLY OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN TUESDAY NIGHT. FLOODING MAY BE A PROBLEM IN SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 281 AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE REGION WILL ALSO SEE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB-PAGE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID NOAA/NWS/MORITZ/LAWRENCE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 8:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.