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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Hastings, NE

August 8, 2004York County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2004, 5:51 AM CDT for York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2004, 5:51 AM CDT (10:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2004, 6:15 AM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 081051
SVRGID
NEC185-081115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
550 AM CDT SUN AUG 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  YORK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 615 AM CDT

* AT 545 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.  THIS     
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HENDERSON...OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF         
  BRADSHAW...OR ABOUT 13 MILES   WEST OF YORK...AND MOVING SOUTH AT  
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LUSHTON AND MCCOOL JUNCTION AROUND 610 AM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4094 9764 4093 9781 4071 9781 4071 9752

$$
10

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 4:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley26 min
Aug 8, 4:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNance36 min
Aug 8, 4:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMerrick43 min
Aug 8, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton45 min
Aug 8, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls63 min

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.