Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2004, 12:32 AM CDT for Frontier 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2004, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:34 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.
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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 150532 SVRLBF NEC063-150600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1233 AM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1229 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELWOOD...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY AROUND 1250 AM CDT LAT...LON 4045 10027 4028 10030 4021 9992 4044 9988 $$ SPRINGER
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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 2:22 PM CDT, 10 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:22 PM CDT, 10 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 222 PM CDT ON JUN 14 2004 ...FROPA ON TUESDAY AND ASSOCIATED TEMPS AND CONVECTION AND COOLING TREND IN LATER PERIODS ARE THE MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGES... .DISCUSSION... THETA-E ADVECTION RETURNS IN EARNEST TONIGHT AS SFC HIGH SHIFTS INTO IA/MO. 30KT LLVL JET KICKS IN AFTER 03Z TONIGHT. WEAK WAVES UPSTREAM IN SRN WY/NRN CO MOVE IN WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ELEVATED CONVECTION DEVELOPING AFTER MIDNIGHT. MU CAPES 850-700 MB INCREASE TO AROUND 200 J/KG INDICATES AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND FEEL THAT ONLY A VERY WEAK DISTURBANCE WILL BE ENOUGH TO DEVELOP SMALL MCS IN CNTRL FA OVERNIGHT WHICH IN MOVE ENE. ON TUESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO NWRN FA AS SFC LOW PRESSURE DEEPENS FROM CNTRL INTO SWRN NEBR. VERY UNSTABLE EAST OF ANW TO LBF WHICH IS WHERE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOST LIKELY. AMPLE 0-6KM SHEAR 30-50 KTS. LOCALIZED HIGH SHEAR ALONG FRONT WILL AID IN SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO PRIMARILY NEAR AND SOUTHEAST OF A BRADY TO ONEIL LINE. HIGHS WILL CONTRAST FROM 90 FAR SOUTHEAST TO THE UPPER 70S NW. FAIRLY STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT AT 310K TUESDAY EVENING INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING WILL KEEP AT LEAST CHC POPS ACROSS SERN FA BEHIND THE FRONT. MAINLY CLOUDY WEDNESDAY AND MUCH COOLER WITH HIGHS NEAR 70. DRY AND PLEASANT THU WITH HIGHS MID 70S AS SFC HIGH IN CONTROL. IN THE MEDIUM RANGE...PREFER THE LESS AMPLIFIED SOLUTIONS OF THE 06Z GFS/00Z ECMWF/CANADIAN/UKMET KEEPING MORE TROUGHING INTO THE PAC NW AND LESS TROUGHING IN THE CENTRAL CONUS. MOST LIKELY TIMEFRAME FOR SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO BE THU NIGHT/FRIDAY. HAVE ADJUSTED TEMPS DOWN SOME FRI/SAT TO THE LOWER MID 70S WITH GFS CONSISTENT WITH BRINGING DOWN COOL AIR ORIGINATING IN HUDSON BAY AREA. CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE AND NW FLOW DISPLACE BETTER MOISTURE TO OUR SOUTHEAST SAT THROUGH MONDAY WITH NO POPS INTRODUCED. TEMPERATURES SHOULD GENERALLY RANGE FROM 80 TO 85 EACH DAY. && .LBF...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && KAR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:30 PM CDT, 9 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 330 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-151100- ARTHUR-BLAINE-BOYD-BROWN-CHASE-CUSTER-DEUEL-EASTERN CHERRY-FRONTIER- GARDEN-GARFIELD-GRANT-HAYES-HOLT-HOOKER-KEITH-KEYA PAHA-LINCOLN- LOGAN-LOUP-MCPHERSON-PERKINS-ROCK-SHERIDAN-THOMAS-WESTERN CHERRY- WHEELER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AINSWORTH...ARNOLD...ARTHUR...BASSETT... BIG SPRINGS...BREWSTER...BROKEN BOW...BURWELL...CHAPPELL...CURTIS... GORDON...GRANT...HAY SPRINGS...HAYES CENTER...IMPERIAL...MULLEN... NORTH PLATTE...ONEILL...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE...SPENCER... SPRINGVIEW...STAPLETON...TAYLOR...THEDFORD...TRYON AND VALENTINE 330 PM CDT MON JUN 14 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT...SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM HYANNIS IN GRANT COUNTY TO BROKEN BOW IN CUSTER COUNTY. A STATIONARY FRONT ALONG THE KANSAS NEBRASKA BORDER WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE OUTLOOK AREA ON TUESDAY FROM THE NORTHWEST WITH A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTOMS TO DEVELOP TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM ONEILL IN HOLT COUNTY TO ARNOLD IN CUSTER COUNTY TO EUSTIS IN FRONTIER COUNTY WHERE THERE IS BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY NIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM OSHKOSH IN GARDEN COUNTY TO VALENTINE IN CHERRY COUNTY. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE TUNDERSTORMS BOTH TONIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. POWER
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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.