Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 6:38 PM CDT for Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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
- May 17, 2000, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 6:51 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Sherman Res, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
553 WUUS53 KGID 172340 SVRGRI NEC163-180015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 638 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SHERMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 638 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES NORTH OF KEARNEY...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF HAZARD...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH THE LITCHFIELD AND LOUP CITY AREAS BETWEEN 645 AND 715 PM CDT. PEOPLE IN SHERMAN COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. $$ EWALD/KD 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 May 17, 1:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 1:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 145 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 OBVIOUS SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBILITIES THE FOCUS OF THIS FORECAST. 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS FRONT FROM SW TO NE NEBRASKA. LESS WELL DEFINED BUT MORE IMPORTANT BOUNDARY NEAR THE KS BORDER EXTENDING INTO LOW PRESSURE OVER ERN COLORADO. DRY LINE STRETCHES FROM GLD TO DDC. FARTHER EAST...HEATING HAS BEEN LIMITED BY DEVELOPMENT OF MID CLOUDS BUT MAIN KICKER BEARING DOWN ON AREA...NOW INTO WESTERN KANSAS. STILL LOOKS LIKE INITIATION TO BEGIN AROUND OR SHORTLY BEFORE ZONE ISSUANCE TIME. WITH INSTABILITY AND DYNAMICS A GIVEN...JUST WAITING FOR CAP TO BE BROKEN. LOOKS LIKE ENTIRE WESTERN CWA UNDER THE GUN FOR INITIATION WITH SVR WEATHER THREAT SPREADING EAST THIS EVENING. SVR WX WATCH IMMINENT AS PER SWOMCD AND AREA PRIMED FOR TORNADOES AS WELL AS WINDS/HAIL. DRY PUNCH MAY SHUT OFF PCPN AFTER THIS EVENING OVER THE SOUTH. SHOULD GET BEST RAINS OVER THE NORTH. EXPECT WRAP AROUND PCPN TO ADVANCE SOUTH BY MORNING THEN REMAIN MUCH OF THE DAY TOMORROW. TSTMS STILL POSSIBLE THRU THURSDAY UNDER COLD POOL ALOFT AND THIS IDEA REINFORCED BY NEGATIVE EPV INDICATED AT 700 MB ON ETA. TEMPS WILL BE QUITE COOL UNDER CLOUDS WITH SOME AREAS NOT ESCAPING THE 50S. AS SKIES CLEAR THU NGT LOOK FOR VERY COOL TEMPS...APPROACHING 40. RECOVERY SHOULD BEGIN FRIDAY WITH TEMPS RETURNING TO THE 60S. ALL IN ALL GUIDANCE LOOKS TO BE PERFORMING FAIRLY WELL AND IN FACT ALL MODELS ARE IN DECENT AGREEMENT. WILL KEEP CHANCE OF TSTMS IN FORECAST SUNDAY AS MOISTURE SHOULD RETURN BY THAT TIME AHEAD OF NEXT...SUBSTANTIALLY WEAKER TROUGH. .GID...NONE. DROZD
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 17, 3:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
336 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0332 PM FULLERTON NE WIND DAMAGE
05/17/00 NANCE TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 45 min |
| May 17, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 50 min |
| May 17, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 53 min |
| May 17, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 38 min |
| May 17, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 33 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.