1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 2:00 AM CST, 10 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 300 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 .DISCUSSION...SFC FRONT N THRU ND AND SRN MN WITH SFC LOW AND TROF FROM N CNTRL KS...CENTER OF KS PORTION OF CWA...S INTO WRN OK. ALOFT...UPR LOW CONTINUES TO SLOWLY SPIN OVR CNTRL KS...MAKING WAY EWD. HEAVIEST PRECIP FALLING NEAR TROF UPR LOW COMBO...BEST S OF HIGHWAY 6...WITH ANOTHER RAIN BAND SPINNING OUT OF NERN KS TOWARDS OUR AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY. ALREADY HOISTED FLOOD WATCH FOR EXTREME SRN TIER OF COUNTIES IN CWA THRU FRI AM...WITH GUIDANCE NUMBERS ALL AT OR BELOW AND INCH 5 FOR 6 HRS. AGAIN...MANY DRAINAGE/ROAD DITCHES ALREADY BRIMMING WITH H2O FROM EARLY RAINS...SO KEEPING WATCH THRU MORNING HRS. OTHERWISE NO SIG CHANGES THRU SHORT TERM...WITH TSRW ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST AND TEMPS 5 TO 10 DEG HIGHER OVR WRN CWA UNDER INCREASING SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON. MAY GET HOT ENOUGH OVR WRN NE TO POP SOME STORMS LATE AFTERNOON/EVE NEAR EVOLVING TROF. THINK WE WILL BE STABLE ENOUGH THRU MOST OF CWA...EVEN WRN PORTIONS...TO KEEP LOW CHANCES OUT OF FCST FOR NOW. WORTH A LITTLE BIT OF WATCHING HOWEVER IF CLEARING AND HEATING BECOME TOO RAMPANT W OF HIGHWAY 283. BEYOND...SATURDAY...RIDGING AND HEAT MAKE WAY INTO AREA. RELATIVELY HOT AND HUMID COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING. MOSTLY CAPPED THOUGH...SO WILL HAVE TO LOOK WEST FOR LL CONVERGENCE NEAR INVERTED TROF...ELEVATION AND HEAT TO COME TOGETHER AND PROVIDE FIREWORKS FOR THE EVE OF THE 4TH. NOT OUT OF QUESTION TO BEAT CAP ACROSS WRN CWA AND RIDE A FEW STORMS THRU OVR NIGHT NEAR LL TROF BOUNDARY...SO LOW CHC POPS SAT EVE ON. FURTHER BEYOND...NO SIG CHANGES. APPROACH OF SW THRU RIDGE STILL SHOWING FOR SUN...PUSHING FRONT THRU MONDAYISH. LATE DAY CHANCES EACH DAY...LINGERING INTO NIGHT. UPR FLOW PATTERN NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT...AND LL SHEAR LEANING TO WEAK SIDE...SO NOT EXPECTING SVR OUTBREAK ANYTIME SOON. AFTER FRONT SAGGING/STALLING MON/TUE...RETURN TO HOT MUGGY CONDITIONS OVR MOST OF CWA BY WED AND ON. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...FLOOD WATCH FOR MITCHELL...OSBORNE...AND ROOKS COUNTIES UNTIL NOON FRIDAY. && 10
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1047 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-031200- ADAMS-BUFFALO-CLAY-DAWSON-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-FURNAS-GOSPER-GREELEY- HALL-HAMILTON-HARLAN-HOWARD-KEARNEY-MERRICK-NANCE-NUCKOLLS-PHELPS- POLK-SHERMAN-THAYER-VALLEY-WEBSTER-YORK- 1047 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD WEST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WILL GENERALLY BE EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE BETWEEN SATURDAY AND TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY LATE IN THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENINGS. AT THIS TIME HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB-PAGE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID (ALL LOWER CASE) KSZ005>007-017>019-031200- JEWELL-MITCHELL-OSBORNE-PHILLIPS-ROOKS-SMITH- 1047 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD WEST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES SLOWLY EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WILL GENERALLY BE EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. SEVERE WEATHER HOWEVER IS NOT EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE BETWEEN SATURDAY AND TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY LATE IN THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENINGS. AT THIS TIME HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION...LOG ONTO THE HASTINGS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB-PAGE... HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GID (ALL LOWER CASE) NELSON
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:03 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
The Valley County Emergency Manager observed a brief tornado in southern Valley county. The tornado did no damage.
A funnel cloud was observed northeast of Waco.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 2004Warnings in Nebraska, July 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5411562, 5411563.