Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2004, 6:25 PM MDT for Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2004, 6:25 PM MDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:40 PM MDT | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Nw Haigler, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KGLD 050025
SVRGLD
NEC057-050115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
625 PM MDT SUN JUL 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 715 PM MDT
* AT 618 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAIGLER
TO 6 MILES WEST OF HAIGLER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HAIGLER AROUND 640 PM MDT...
PARKS AROUND 655 PM MDT...
BENKELMAN AROUND 705 PM MDT...
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INDOORS. DO NOT STAND BY
WINDOWS. UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY...AVOID USING TELEPHONES THAT HAVE
CORDS ATTACHED TO THEM...COMPUTERS...AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.
LAT...LON 4033 10203 4011 10204 4001 10204 4002 10136
4018 10135 4033 10136
$$
BURKEWhat 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 4, 1:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 130 PM MDT SUN JUL 4 2004 .DISCUSSION...FORECAST CONCERNS CONTINUE TO REVOLVE AROUND PRECIPITATION CHANCES THROUGH TUESDAY AND AGAIN FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NOTE...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION WAS ACCIDENTALLY DELETED AND DUE TO ACTIVE WEATHER AN ABBREVIATED VERSION FOLLOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING WITH HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST AND A DIMINISHING TREND AFTER 06Z. SEVERE WEATHER WILL RETURN ON MONDAY AS A SHORT WAVE MOVES OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND A BOUNDARY APPROACHES LATE IN THE PERIOD. STABILITY PARAMETERS SUPPORT PREVIOUS FORECAST WITH SCATTERED DEVELOPMENT NORTHEAST OF SURFACE LOW AND ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT AS BOUNDARY PUSHES SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA. THE BIGGEST CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS FORECAST THROUGH THE REMAINING PERIODS WAS KEEPING TUE/WED DRY WITH A WARMING TREND ON WED AS UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFIES OVER THE ROCKIES AND WARM MID LEVEL AIR SPREADS ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && MWM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 10:18 AM MDT, 8 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1018 AM MDT SUN JUL 4 2004 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-051147- CHEYENNE KS-CHEYENNE COUNTY CO-DECATUR KS-DUNDY NE-GOVE KS-GRAHAM KS- GREELEY KS-HITCHCOCK NE-KIT CARSON COUNTY CO-LOGAN KS-NORTON KS- RAWLINS KS-RED WILLOW NE-SHERIDAN KS-SHERMAN KS-THOMAS KS-WALLACE KS- WICHITA KS-YUMA COUNTY CO- 1018 AM MDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER EASTERN COLORADO LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM NEW MEXICO. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL BE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT A RISK OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT...WITH A CONTINUED RISK OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...THE ANTICIPATED SLOW STORM MOVEMENT SUGGESTS THAT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND ASSOCIATED MINOR FLOODING WILL BE A CONCERN ACROSS THE ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ON MONDAY...THE AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO BE MOIST AND RATHER UNSTABLE. ANOTHER STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. ONCE AGAIN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. FOR TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL REMAIN ACTIVE...AND BRING A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. AT THIS TIME...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON IN EASTERN COLORADO AND THE ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA THIS EVENING. JDK/BULLER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:29 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
529 PM MDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0520 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 SE JOES 39.63N 102.65W
07/04/2004 YUMA CO TRAINED SPOTTER
10 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN.
&&
JOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:32 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
532 PM MDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0515 PM TSTM WND DMG 9 N STRATTON 39.43N 102.60W
07/04/2004 KIT CARSON CO TRAINED SPOTTER
3.5 INCH DIAMETER LIVE TREE BRANCHES DOWN.
&&
JOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:55 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
555 PM MDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0553 PM HAIL 6 S WRAY 39.99N 102.23W
07/04/2004 0.88 INCH YUMA CO PUBLIC
&&
JOHNSONLocal storm report, Jul 4, 6:09 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
609 PM MDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0603 PM HAIL WRAY 40.08N 102.23W
07/04/2004 1.00 INCH YUMA CO TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
JOHNSONSpecial weather statement, Jul 4, 6:17 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 617 PM MDT SUN JUL 4 2004 KSZ004-016-050700- GRAHAM-NORTON- 717 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 555 FOR PORTIONS OF THE TRI-STATE AREA UNTIL 2 AM CDT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH...NORTON AND GRAHAM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED...TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. MWM
Local storm report, Jul 4, 6:18 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
618 PM MDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0555 PM TSTM WND GST 12 NE IDALIA 39.82N 102.14W
07/04/2004 65 MPH YUMA CO TRAINED SPOTTER
0600 PM HAIL 12 NE IDALIA 39.82N 102.14W
07/04/2004 0.75 INCH YUMA CO TRAINED SPOTTER
0535 PM HAIL 6 N KIRK 39.71N 102.60W
07/04/2004 0.75 INCH YUMA CO NWS EMPLOYEE
0545 PM TSTM WND DMG 13 N JOES 39.84N 102.68W
07/04/2004 YUMA CO NWS EMPLOYEE
17 INCH DIAMETER BRANCH DOWN.
&&
JOHNSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 66 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.