Alert archive / Nebraska / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1292
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2004, 4:19 PM MDT for 18 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2004, 4:19 PM MDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2004, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Brown County, NE, Custer County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Grant County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richardson | 113 min |
| Jun 14, 9:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dundy, Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Hitchcock, Nuckolls and 2 more | 88 min |
| Jun 14, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Hitchcock, Nuckolls, Red Willow and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Pawnee, Richardson, Saline | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock and 1 more | 118 min |
| Jun 15, 12:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Dundy, Perkins | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:35 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Pierce, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Buffalo, Chase and 30 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Nebraska, 2004Every mesoscale discussion 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.