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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Hastings, NE

July 4, 2004Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2004, 9:44 PM CDT for Furnas County, Gosper 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: Jul 4, 2004, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 4, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 2129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Jul 4, 3:22 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:22 PM CDT, 6 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 7:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
724 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-051200-
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-
724 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 2 AM CDT MONDAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE THIS
EVENING AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA BETWEEN 8 AND 10 PM.
THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND HEAVY RAINFALL THE THREATS WITH LOCALIZED
FLOODING POSSIBLE IN AREAS WHERE SOIL CONDITIONS REMAIN SATURATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY AND
MONDAY NIGHT...WITH ISOLATED CHANCES FOR LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN.

ADDITIONAL SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THURSDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING.

&&

FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE WEB-PAGE...

HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID (ALL LOWER CASE)

NELSON/T

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 8:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
813 PM CDT SUN JUL 04 2004

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

0900 PM     TSTM WND GST     SHERMAN RESERVOIR DAM   41.30N 98.88W
07/03/2004  60 MPH           SHERMAN            NE   PUBLIC

            2 BOATS CAPSIZED - REPORT RECEIVED 7/4

&&

NELSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Webster	61 min
Jul 4, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	64 min
Jul 4, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Kearney, Phelps	79 min
Jul 4, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	65 min
Jul 5, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	62 min
Jul 4, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	59 min
Jul 4, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Phillips, Smith	81 min
Jul 4, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.