Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1997, 6:15 PM CST for Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1997, 6:15 PM CST (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:15 PM CST | Hail 1 | Funk, NE | |
| Mar 8, 6:25 PM CST | Hail 1 | Axtell, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3338 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846 WUUS1 KGRI 090018 RRA SVRGRI NEC099-137-090100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 615 PM CST SAT MAR 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...KEARNEY COUNTY...EASTERN PHELPS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL WILL AFFECT FUNK...AXTELL AND NEAR MINDEN THROUGH 645 PM. TAKE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED STRUCTURE AWAY FROM WINDOWS NOW AT 615 PM...HASTINGS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 44 NEAR AXTELL...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. BREWSTER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 8, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 1:55 PM CST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 155 PM CST SAT MAR 8 1997 ...PRLBM WILL BE SHRA/TSRA THIS EVENING AND INTO OVERNIGHT HOURS... CURRENT SFC ANAL HAD LL MOISTURE CONTG TO MOVE RAPIDLY NORTH IN ADVANC OF TROF AND DVLPG LO PRES ON FRONT RANGE. MID 40 DWPTS HAVE SNUCK INTO XTRM SW NEB WITH MID 50S INTO SW KS. WITH PROFILER NETWORK SHOWING S-SSW WINDS OF 30/50 KTS THRU H85 CAN ONLY ASSUME 50 F DWPTS AT H85 EVIDENT ON 12Z UAA IN NRN TX HAVE MADE THE SAME MOVE. ADAP SHOWS LIS TO 0 IN SW NEB WITH CAP DOWN TO 2 C. IT/S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN. VIS SAT PIX SHOW CU DEVELOPING FROM PARTS OF CNTRL NEB...AND MOD/TOWG CU IN PNHDL. AREA 88DS SHOWING LITTLE TO NO RETURNS AS OF YET AS THE MOISTURE IS FOR THE TIME BEING VERY LIMITED IN NEB. ONE LAST NOTE ON SAT WOULD BE WV IMAGES OF IMPRESSIVE VORT MAX PUNCHING INTO WY/CO W/ A SMALLER WAVE SPINNING AROUND THE SE PERIPHERY OF THIS ONE THRU KS. THIS SUPPORTS NGM/S MORE PRONOUNCED SOLN AND KEEPS LIKELIHOOD OF STRONG DYNAMICS LATER THIS EVE IN AREA. AS NGM IS THE ONLY MDL SO FAR...AM FOLLOWING IT. GOOD THING IT APPREARS TO HAVE A VERY NICE HANDLE ON PARAMETERS TO THIS POINT AS IT HAS STRENGHENED TROF AND SLOWED IT AND THUS HAS ALLOW MUCH MORE LL MOISTURE TO WORK NORTH INTO AREA. WITH THIS IN MIND...WILL DIVIDE CWA FROM NW TO SE BASED ON TIMING OF THE TROF PASSAGE. IN NW SECTION...GENERALLY FROM ALMA TO KEARNEY TO GRAND ISLAND TO GENOA...WILL SAY 30% CHC SHRAS/TSRAS PSBL THRU ABOUT MIDNIGHT. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS SHIFTING TO THE NW AND REMAIN GUSTY AFT MIDNIGHT. LOW TEMPS 30 TO 35. TO THE SE...40 OR 50% CHC SHRA/TSRA INTO EARLY AM HRS. SAME WINDS W/ LOWS IN MID 30S. KS W/ LIKELY POPS. TOMR...THINGS CLEAR OUT QUICKLY IN DPVA BEHIND DEEPENING TROF AS IT MOVES INTO GT LKS. GUID S SEEM REASONABLE GENERALLY BTWN 50 AND 55 ACROSS AREA. GUSTY NW WINDS 20/30 IN AM WITH TIGHT SFC GRADIENT DIMINISHING SOME BY AFTN. TOMR NIGHT...WILL FOLLOW GUIDANCE AGAIN AS HI PRES MOVES OVERHEAD AND DWPTS IN THE TEENS/20S TO THE NW OF US ATT MOVE IN. WAA ON RETURN FLOW AROUND THIS HI PRES AND NEXT TROF TO THE WEST WILL BRING SOME UPPER CLDS INTO AREA AGAIN FOR P CLDY SKIES ON MONDAY. TEMPS SHOULD REBOUND NICELY AND WILL RANGE TEMPS FROM MID 50S NORTH TO MID 60S AGAIN IN KS. GRI UB 035/051/024/057 4000 ODX UB 032/050/020/055 3000 LXN UB 032/053/020/060 3000 HBR UB 038/053/026/059 5100 BLT BB 040/055/029/064 6200 GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 46 min |
| Mar 9, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.