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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 593

July 8, 200419 counties in Nebraska

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.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFThomas31 min
Jul 8, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln54 min
Jul 8, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown48 min
Jul 8, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase56 min
Jul 8, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFPerkins66 min
Jul 8, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster54 min
Jul 8, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFKeya Paha, Rock53 min
Jul 8, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln33 min
Jul 8, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson60 min
Jul 8, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier64 min
Jul 8, 10:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDDawson46 min
Jul 8, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster61 min
Jul 8, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper57 min
Jul 9, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFChase56 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1868 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Franklin, Furnas and 13 more6 hr
Jul 8, 10:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Dawson, Franklin and 18 more92 min
Jul 9, 12:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGage, Jefferson, Nuckolls, Pawnee, Saline, Thayer56 min
Jul 9, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Cass, Clay, Fillmore, Gage, Hamilton and 15 more4 hr
Jul 9, 1:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow57 min
Jul 9, 2:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Cass, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 10 more89 min
Jul 9, 2:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff118 min
Jul 9, 6:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 7 more106 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.