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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 393

June 3, 200413 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2004, 3:50 PM MDT for 13 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2004, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Arthur County, NE, Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hooker County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 3:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRBennett64 min
Jun 3, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan58 min
Jun 3, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan61 min
Jun 3, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan61 min
Jun 3, 7:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFSheridan32 min
Jun 3, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur46 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2004-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2004-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 1:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball and 4 more117 min
Jun 3, 2:05 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCheyenne, Kimball7 hr
Jun 3, 3:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBox Butte, Cherry, Dawes, Hooker, Sheridan, Sioux91 min
Jun 3, 5:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 7 more55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.