Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 412
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2004, 7:55 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Yuma County, Colorado; Cheyenne County, Rawlins County, Sherman County, Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2004, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Kit Carson County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 9:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 59 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 711 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 115 min |
| Jun 8, 10:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Sedgwick, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Jun 9, 12:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 93 min |
| Jun 9, 1:40 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Broomfield and 20 more | 93 min |
| Jun 9, 12:03 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 4:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Wilson | 96 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.