Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

April 18, 2004Brown County, Keya Paha County, Rock County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2004, 2:37 PM CDT for Brown County, Keya Paha County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 53 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: Apr 18, 2004, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brown County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Rock County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 18, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -439 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

934 
WUUS53 KLBF 181937
SVRLBF
NEC017-103-149-182030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
236 PM CDT SUN APR 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  EASTERN KEYA PAHA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 235 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AINSWORTH...OR ABOUT OVER AINSWORTH...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LONG PINE AROUND 250 PM CDT
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BASSETT AROUND 310 PM CDT

LAT...LON 4262 10011 4217 9971 4272 9930 4298 9976

$$

BUTTLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	53 min
Apr 18, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Boyd	62 min
Apr 18, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	31 min
Apr 18, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Custer	33 min
Apr 18, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	14 min
Apr 18, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Loup	28 min
Apr 18, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garfield	35 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.