Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 593
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2004, 8:05 PM CDT for 19 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2004, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2004, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Blaine County, NE, Brown County, NE, Chase County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Garfield County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Holt County, NE, Hooker County, NE, Keith County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, Loup County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Rock County, NE, Thomas County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Perkins | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha, Rock | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 56 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 1868 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Franklin, Furnas and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Dawson, Franklin and 18 more | 92 min |
| Jul 9, 12:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gage, Jefferson, Nuckolls, Pawnee, Saline, Thayer | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Hamilton and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 2:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cass, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 10 more | 89 min |
| Jul 9, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff | 118 min |
| Jul 9, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 7 more | 106 min |
Nearby
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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.