Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 570
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2004, 7:40 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 49 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2004, 7:40 PM CDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Cloud County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Adams County, NE, Antelope County, NE, Blaine County, NE, Boone County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Thomas County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Valley County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Webster County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE
Warnings issued inside it
32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Platte | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Loup, Rock | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nance | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 27 min |
| Jul 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 9:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 9:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, Rice | 75 min |
| Jul 5, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud | 3 hr |
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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Geary, Graham, Jewell and 15 more | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 7:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 17 more | 96 min |
| Jul 5, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Hamilton and 16 more | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 28 more | 59 min |
| Jul 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Grant, Harper, Haskell and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 46 more | 119 min |
| Jul 6, 2:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Coffey, Douglas and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 26 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.