Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1997, 6:20 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 3, 1997, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Merrick County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Central City, 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 text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Aug 3, 2:20 PM CDT, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:20 PM CDT, 4 hours before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 220 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 1997 MAIN QUESTION TDA IS IF/WHEN/WHERE CONVN WL FORM. SFC ANLYS LOCATES PERSISTENT WK SFC TROF OMA-SLN-AMA WTH SFC MSTR POOLED OVR SE 1/2 OF NEB AND MOST OF IA & KS. WK SLO MOVG CD FNT LAY ON A ORD-FSD-DIK LN. XTRMLY UNSTBL AMS IN PLACE WTH ADAP SHOWING LIS OF -10 AND MODIFIED LBF SOUNDING INDICATING CAPE OF 4000. SATL SHOWS CU FIELD A BIT MORE ORGANIZED ACRS GID CWA THAN YDA AND A LOOK OUT THE WINDOW CONFIRMS A BIT MORE VERTICAL DVLPMT AS WELL. AC FIELD OVR NEB PNHNDL MAY BE A REFLECTION OF A WEAK S/W BT CAN/T FIND IT IN PROFILER DATA. MSTR AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE...BT NO FOCUSING MECHANISM. MDLS SHOW ONLY SGFNT UPR LVL FEATURES AS SYS CROSSING IA/IL NOW AND S/W ROUNDING UPR RDG OVR WY AND NRN CO MON NGT & TUES. SFC FNT SCHEDULED TO DROP ACRS NEB LT TNGT AND TMRW BT WK CONVERGENCE UNLIKELY TO YIELD WDSPRD CONVN. WL FOCUS CHC FOR CONVN ALG FNTL CONVERGENCE WTH SOME BOOST PSBL FROM NEB PNHDL S/W TNGT THRUT CWA. NGM LOCN OF BK DOOR FNT LOOKS RSNBL AND APRS ANY CONVN MON AFTN WL BE W OF GRI & HSI. HARD TO MEASURE COOLING WTH FNT BT STRENGTH OF SFC HI WOULD SUPPORT FWC TEMPS. GRI BB 069/089/064/085 2111 ODX BB 067/087/062/084 2111 LXN BB 064/092/062/085 2211 HBR BB 069/089/065/086 2111 BEL BB 071/092/067/087 2211 SCHURR
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.