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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2000, 10:39 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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
- Jul 18, 2000, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 11:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Damar, KS | |
| Jul 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Webster, KS | |
| Jul 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Stockton, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 190340 SVRGRI KSC163-190430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1039 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1036 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF DAMAR TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALCO...OR FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF NORTON TO 49 MILES EAST OF OAKLEY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... DAMAR AT 1105 PM CDT WEBSTER STATE PARK AT 1115 PM CDT ZURICH AT 1120 PM CDT PLAINVILLE AT 1130 PM CDT PEOPLE IN ROOKS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. $$ LAT...LON 3956 10008 3897 10016 389?6 9916 3955 9918 09 NNNN
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 Jul 18, 3:10 PM CDT, 7 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 3:10 PM CDT, 7 hours 29 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 310 PM CDT TUE JUL 18 2000 12Z UAA SHOWED DISTINCT TROF AT H7 BISECTING THE STATE AND SATELLITE IMAGERY MARKING CONTINUED EWD PROGRESS. DECENT DOWNWARD MOTION AS VISIBLE IMAGERY SHOWS WRN HALF OF NEBR PRETTY MUCH CLOUD FREE. HOWEVER STILL A FEW RIPPLES IN THE UPPER FLOW ACRS WRN US PER UAA AND PROFILER DATA ALTHOUGH MOST SIGNIFICANT SHOWING UP OVER NRN ID AT 12Z. UAA ALSO SHOWING GOOD UPPER JET ACRS GREAT BASIN. AT THE SFC MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY STILL WELL SOUTH INTO KS AT 18Z...EXTENDING FROM NR TOP TO E OF LBL. HOWEVER A SECONDARY BOUNDARY IS MOVING S ACRS NRN NEBR. MODELS THEN PRETTY CONSISTENT PUSHING THIS SECONDARY BOUNDARY SWD THROUGH THE FA BY SUNRISE TOMORROW AND SFC HIGH MOVING S FROM NRN MN INTO IA. LOOKS LIKE A DECENT SHOT OF RAIN LATE TONIGHT THROUGH AT LEAST TOMORROW MORNING AS WEAK TO MODERATE FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING DEVELOPS TO THE NORTH OF SFC BOUNDARY ACRS SCNTL NEBR THEN SLIPPING INTO NCNTL KS. ATMOS NOT BEING SCOURED OUT IN WAKE OF UPPER TROF AND EXPECT H85 DEWPOINTS NEAR 15C TO HANG AROUND. ADD RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER JET AND DPVA AHEAD OF NEXT UPPER WAVE TO THE MIX. HOWEVER...GIVEN THIS STYLE OF FORCING AT THIS TIME OF YEAR CANNOT QUITE GO WITH LIKELY POPS BUT WILL RUN WITH HIGHER END OF CHC CATEGORY. POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN OVER RAINSOAKED AREAS BETWEEN HASTINGS AND KS LINE BUT WITH LATE NIGHT/2ND PD EVENT EXPECTED WILL LET NEXT SHIFT TAKE A LOOK AT NEW DATA FOR BETTER HANDLE ON NEED FOR AN FFA. FOR DAY2...GOOD INSTABILITY AXIS DEVELOPS ON HIGH PLAINS AS SELY FLOW SETS UP ON BACK SIDE OF MIDWEST SFC HIGH. EXPECT AT LEAST WIDELY SCATTERED INITIATION THERE WITH POSSIBLE MCS MOVING EWD. MODELS HIT BETTER CHC FOR THIS ACRS KS ZONES. GIVEN FAIRLY WET SCENARIO WILL GO TO COOL SIDE OF GUIDANCE TEMPS. CLOSER TO MACHINE NUMBERS THURSDAY WITH INCREASED INSOLATION. .GID...NONE. BARRITT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.