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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 594

July 8, 20044 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2004, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Decatur County, KS, Norton County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Butler County, NE, Clay County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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

26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper57 min
Jul 8, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman67 min
Jul 8, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhelps58 min
Jul 8, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas65 min
Jul 8, 10:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo46 min
Jul 8, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan62 min
Jul 8, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney45 min
Jul 8, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Sherman57 min
Jul 8, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo65 min
Jul 8, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Hall58 min
Jul 8, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton55 min
Jul 8, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips65 min
Jul 8, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin64 min
Jul 8, 11:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Sherman6 hr
Jul 8, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDWebster62 min
Jul 9, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith65 min
Jul 9, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay53 min
Jul 9, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard37 min
Jul 9, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls62 min
Jul 9, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick57 min
Jul 9, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPolk, York68 min
Jul 9, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith46 min
Jul 9, 1:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDMerrick, Nance6 hr
Jul 9, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick32 min
Jul 9, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Saline, Seward61 min
Jul 9, 1:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDPolk6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 9:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Meade, Seward115 min
Jul 8, 10:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDecatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Smith92 min
Jul 9, 12:19 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more56 min
Jul 9, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 27 more4 hr
Jul 9, 2:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 27 more89 min
Jul 8, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBlaine, Brown, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Frontier and 13 more6 hr
Jul 9, 1:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChase, Dundy, Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Red Willow57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.