Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

Apr 24, 2000, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)

Expired

Apr 24, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT

In force

26 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Whole counties

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS53 KGID 250205
SVRGRI
NEC019-137-250230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
904 PM CDT MON APR 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 904 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15
  MILES WEST OF KEARNEY...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF ELM CREEK...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ODESSA AT 910 PM CDT
  
PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN PHELPS AND SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTIES
SHOULD SEEK mSHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE
SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY.

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KD

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NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 24, 2:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
200 PM CDT MON APR 24 2000

SCATTERED TSRA BREAKING OUT WRN NEBR TO ERN COLO AHEAD OF UPPER
SHORT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED SFC FRONT. FAIRLY COMPLEX UPPER PATTERN TO
CONTINUE TO COMPLICATE FORECAST WITH BLOCKING UPPER HIGH REMAINING
JUST EAST OF FA. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWING DUAL VORTS IN NRN
ROCKIES SHORTWAVE WITH ONE STARTING UP RIDGE THROUGH ERN WY AND THE
OTHER MOVING EAST ACRS NRN COLO. MODELS SEEM TO HANDLE FAIRLY WELL.
CURRENT PRECIP INCREASES CONFIDENCE.

SYSTEM MOVES TOWARD FA OVERNIGHT WITH PRECIP SPREADING INTO WRN
COUNTIES THIS EVENING. SYSTEM PROGGED TO WEAKEN AS IT COMES UP
AGAINST BLOCKING HIGH. HOWEVER...THIS PATTERN ALSO CONDUCIVE TO UPPER
DIVERGENCE OVER FA. MOISTURE SUFFICIENT WITH +6 ANALYZED AT H85 AT
KOMA THIS MORNING AND PROFILERS SUGGESTING THAT MOISTURE ADVECTING
EWD CURRENTLY. BEST DYNAMICS WILL REMAIN NORTHWEST OF FA AND WILL RUN
WITH HIGHEST POPS THERE EXPECTING DECREASING TREND IN COVERAGE AND
INTENSITY WITH TIME OVERNIGHT.

NGM...ETA AND MM5 EACH KEEP LINGERING SHOWERS OVER ERN ZONES
THROUGH TOMORROW AFTN WITH SHEAR AXIS NEARBY. SOME INSTABILITY IN
AFTN IF ABLE TO CLEAR OUT WELL. BUT GENERALLY NVA AT THAT TIME
AND WILL JUST KEEP MORNING POPS ATTM ALTHOUGH WITH SLOWER CLEARING
TREND. THIS SCENARIO BETWEEN AVN/NGM AND THUS WILL SPLIT DIFFERENCE
WITH GUIDANCE TEMPS.

UPPER RIDGE THEN BUILDS OVER AREA USHERING NEXT WARMING TREND.
CONSIDERED POPS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS NEXT SFC FRONT MOVES THROUGH FA.
MOISTURE RETURN A CONCERN AND WITH LIMITED DYNAMICS WILL OPT TO
KEEP DRY FOR NOW.

.GID...NONE.

BARRITT

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