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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 542
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2004, 6:55 PM CDT for 11 counties in Kansas; 40 counties in Nebraska; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2004, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Cloud County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Boyd County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Holt County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE, Knox County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Rock County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Turner County, SD, Yankton County, SD
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Phelps | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 70 min |
| Jul 3, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton, Rawlins | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Lake, Yankton | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 65 min |
| Jul 3, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Yankton | 24 min |
| Jul 3, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Knox | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 10:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 87 min |
| Jul 3, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 65 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 84 min |
| Jul 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 6 more | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan and 3 more | 115 min |
| Jul 3, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas | 7 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Jewell, Norton, Phillips and 3 more | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 2:10 PM CDT | 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 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.