Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2004, 7:01 PM MDT for Perkins County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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, 7:01 PM MDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Perkins County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 160101 SVRLBF NEC135-160145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 701 PM MDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERKINS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 745 PM MDT * AT 656 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GRANT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MADRID AROUND 720 PM MDT REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4071 10198 4073 10129 4099 10131 4096 10199 $$ JWS
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 15, 1:28 PM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 1:28 PM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 228 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 .DISCUSSION... SFC FRONT AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LIFTING NORTH FROM OVERNIGHT MCS HAVE CAUSED CONVERGENCE AND WEAK TOWERING CU TO FORM FROM CNTRL GARDEN CO THROUGH VTN. THIS COULD BE A FOCUS FOR SEVER STORM BY LATE AFTERNOON. 18Z LBF SOUNDING MODIFIED SHOWS CAPES TO AROUND 2500 J/KG BUT MARGINAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR TO FAVOR MULTICELL STORMS RATHER THAN SUPERCELLS. NICE WAVE LIFTING NORTHEAST FORM NRN AZ/NM AIDING CONSIDERABLE EARLY AFTN CONVECTION IN CO. THIS BEGAN EARLIER THIS MORNING AND IS A GOOD INDICATION OF A RATHER STRONG WAVE AND NOT DIURNALLY DRIVEN GIVEN TIME OF DAY. THIS WAVE FORECAST SIMILARLY BY THE ETA/GFS TO INTERACT WITH STALLED OUT SFC FRONT FROM NEAR IML TO LBF TO BUB. AN MCS WILL LIKELY FORM IN NERN CO AND EXPAND NORTHEASTWARD ALONG AND NORTH OF FRONT. HAVE RAISED POPS TO LIKELY FOR SRN TWO THIRDS OF FA. HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE. HOWEVER GIVER VERY HIGH FFG VALUES...NO NEED FOR A FFA. MCS WILL LIKELY LINGER THROUGH NOON WED IN THE EAST WITH SOME LINGER SHOWERS POSSIBLE IN THE WEST INTO THE AFTERNOON. WED HIGHS MUCH COOLER IN THE MID 60S. FRONT GETS DISPLACED FURTHER SOUTH FOR WED NIGHT WITH BEST CHCS TO OUR SOUTH. CONTINUED COOL THU WITH LOWER 70S THROUGHOUT. RAIN CHC RETURN THU NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AS UPPER TROUGH DROPS SOUTH FROM CANADA AND SFC LOW/FRONT DEVELOP ACROSS ERN CO INTO KS. && .EXTENDED...CONTINUE TO PREFER THE LESS AMPLIFIED TROUGH FROM THE NRN PLAINS INTO THE GREAT LAKES AS WELL AS THE LOBE EXTENDED WESTWARD INTO THE PAC NW. THIS IS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT BY THE 06Z GFS/00Z CANADIAN/UKMET/ECMWF. THIS SOLUTION WOULD KEEP AREA IN A MORE ZONAL REGIME AND SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES AS OPPOSED TO THE 00Z/15TH GFS RUN OF NW FLOW AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS. REGARDING PRECIP...PREFER TO KEEP FCST DRY SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. && .LBF...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && KAR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 2:33 PM MDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 333 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-160217- 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 333 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AS TWO SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. FIRST A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP...MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF NORTH PLATTE. THEN...OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE NORTHEAST OUT OF COLORADO ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FOR WEDNESDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BE SLOW TO EXIT THE REGION. HOWEVER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN EAST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. ANOTHER WAVE OF ENERGY WILL RIDE ACROSS THE PLAINS ON FRIDAY...WITH THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS...HOWEVER IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. MASEK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 6:27 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
727 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0715 PM HAIL 2 SW ANSELMO 41.60N 99.89W
06/15/2004 0.88 INCH CUSTER NE CO-OP OBSERVER
&&
MBLocal storm report, Jun 15, 6:31 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
731 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0717 PM HAIL 3 SE MAXWELL 41.05N 100.49W
06/15/2004 1.00 INCH LINCOLN NE PUBLIC
&&
MBLocal storm report, Jun 15, 6:33 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
733 PM CDT TUE JUN 15 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0725 PM HAIL 7 SW MADRID 40.78N 101.64W
06/15/2004 1.75 INCH PERKINS NE TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
MBThe office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jun 15, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 8:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 8:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 8:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Perkins | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 9:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 10:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 11:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 11:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Wheeler | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 12:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.