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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 182

May 10, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2004, 9:45 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2004, 9:45 PM MDT (03:45 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 2004, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Sedgwick County, CO, Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garden County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Fall River County, SD

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 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.

Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 10:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOULogan, Phillips, Sedgwick58 min
May 10, 10:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRCuster, Fall River56 min
May 10, 10:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins29 min
May 10, 10:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFDeuel29 min
May 10, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGarden60 min
May 10, 11:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeith17 min
May 10, 11:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur23 min
May 11, 1:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster, Loup30 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1324 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
4.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 7:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 6 more114 min
May 10, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, Elbert and 6 more5 hr
May 11, 1:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers2 hr
May 11, 1:40 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Prowers6 hr
May 10, 6:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 17 more2 hr
May 10, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 24 more5 hr
May 10, 8:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 18 more86 min
May 11, 4:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Finney, Gove, Grant, Gray, Haskell and 10 more115 min
May 10, 9:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Scotts Bluff, Sioux116 min
May 11, 12:27 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Brown, Cherry, Grant, Hooker, Keya Paha and 3 more63 min
May 11, 12:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherry, Dawes, Sheridan118 min
May 11, 12:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArthur, Cherry, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Keith and 4 more5 hr
May 11, 4:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherry, Grant, Hooker, Keya Paha116 min
May 11, 5:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAntelope, Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha and 5 more6 hr
May 11, 2:55 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 10 more5 hr
May 11, 4:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Day, Edmunds, McPherson, Marshall, Roberts113 min
May 11, 5:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Clark and 18 more2 hr

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.