Tornado, Box Butte
- When
- June 10, 1:26 PM MST to 1:30 PM MST
- Where
- Box Butte County, 8 mi W of Hemingford
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 42.317, -103.217
Tornado reported over open country.
Tornado in Nebraska, June 10, 2004
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 10, 2:50 AM MST, 10 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:50 AM MST, 10 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 400 AM MDT THU JUNE 10 2004 .SHORT TERM...SOUTHEAST UPSLOPE FLOW EAST OF THE SNOWY RANGE WILL GIVE WAY TO STRONGER DOWNSLOPE FLOW ONCE THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST WYOMING AROUND 18Z. FEW LINGERING WEAK THUNDERSTORMS IN OUR NORTHERN CWA SHOULD DISSIPATE BY 12Z. AREAS OF FOG ALREADY FORMING IN LARAMIE COUNTY AND SHOULD SEE THIS EXPAND ON THE PLAINS AND INTO THE PANHANDLE. SO LOW CEILINGS AND POOR VISIBILITY...POSSIBLY SOME DRIZZLE...BEFORE THE COLD FRONT MOVES EAST AND DRIES OUT THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. GUSTY SURFACE WINDS EXPECTED TODAY IN WYOMING PORTION OF THE ZONES. IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...COULD BE INTERESTING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH POTENTIAL FOR CONVECTION. STRONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL COLLIDE WITH MOIST AIR IN THIS AREA AND COULD SEE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP BETWEEN 18 AND 20Z. SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK HIGHLIGHTS THIS WITH SLIGHT RISK OVER THE PANHANDLE AND MODERATE RISK JUST TO THE EAST OF THE AREA. HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL BE FAIRLY TRICKY WITH GOOD CAA BEHIND THE FRONT...AREAS OF FOG THIS MORNING AND DOWNSLOPE SURFACE WINDS. WENT A FEW DEGREES COOLER THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST AS GUIDANCE WAS TRENDING COOLER. SURFACE WINDS STAY UP TONIGHT HELPING TO OFFSET THE POTENTIAL FOR GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING. FEW EVENING SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAINS...OTHERWISE DRY AND PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. .LONG TERM...UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL MOVE E OF THE CWA EARLY FRI AS UPR LO OVR ERN MT MVS INTO ND. WRLY FLOW WILL THEN DVLP ALF OVR THE CWA. WRLY FLOW CONTS FRI NT WITH A WK S/WV MVG ACRS THE AREA DRNG THE EVNG. WINDY CONDITIONS WL OCR AT THE SFC FRI WITH DOWNSLOPE WEST WINDS. LOW LEVELS WILL BE DRY BUT SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE WL MV OVR THE AREA. LIS WL BE ABOVE ZERO AND WITH NO TRIGGER...WILL NO SIGNIFICANT TRIGGER...WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST. WRLY FLOW WL CONT ALF SAT THEN FLOW SHIFTS TO THE NW FOR SUN THRU WED. UPPER RIDGE ACRS THE W BUILDS CONSIDERABLY ON TUE AND WED. WILL MENTION DIURANAL TYPE THUNDERSTORMS ON MOST DAYS IN THE EXTENDED...DUE TO MID LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY GENERATED BY SURFACE HEATING. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOUT NORMAL EACH DAY. .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. JLS/KMD
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 9:48 AM MST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1048 AM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-111106- BANNER-BOX BUTTE-CHEYENNE-DAWES-KIMBALL-MORRILL-SCOTTS BLUFF-SIOUX- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLIANCE...CHADRON...KIMBALL... SCOTTSBLUFF AND SIDNEY 1048 AM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EXTEND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. WYZ059>070-111106- CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-CONVERSE-GOSHEN-LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY- NIOBRARA-NORTH CARBON-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-PINE BLUFFS-PLATTE- SNOWY RANGE-SOUTHWEST CARBON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CHEYENNE...DOUGLAS...LARAMIE...LUSK... RAWLINS...TORRINGTON AND WHEATLAND 1048 AM MDT THU JUN 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS MAY OCCUR IN THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GRIFFITH
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 185 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:24 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 10, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 10, 2004
- Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2004
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 10 to 11, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 10 to 13, 2004
- Tornado in Illinois, June 10, 2004
- Tornado in Illinois, June 10, 2004
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 10, 2004
- Flash Flood and Hail in South Dakota, June 10, 2004
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, June 10, 2004
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Iowa, June 10, 2004
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 10, 2004
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 2004Warnings in Nebraska, June 2004
Sources
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: 5408373.