Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 541
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2004, 3:30 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2004, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2004, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Kit Carson County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Arthur County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Cherry County, NE, Deuel County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garden County, NE, Grant County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sheridan County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Bennett County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 24 min |
| Jul 3, 4:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Perkins | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Grant, Hooker | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase, Hayes | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 45 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Prowers | 84 min |
| Jul 2, 8:19 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Kiowa, Prowers | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 2:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 115 min |
| Jul 3, 5:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Norton, Phillips and 3 more | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cloud, Graham, Jewell, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Day, Grant, McPherson, Marshall, Roberts | 3 hr |
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.