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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 6:46 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 20, 2000, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Woodruff, 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 20, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Jul 20, 2:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 227 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000 TSTM CHCS/TIMING REMAIN THE PROBLEM A COUPLE OF SFC BOUNDARIES TO NOTE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTN...ONE OF WHICH EXTENDS FROM BETWEEN KCDR/KAIA TO KODX TO KTQE. THE SECOND BOUNDARY STRETCHES ALONG I-70 IN NORTHERN KANSAS. OVERALL FLOW WEST/NORTHWEST WITH SEVERAL EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE TROFS. THE NEXT WAVE OF CONSEQUENCE CURRENTLY LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA AND THIS WAVE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THRU CWA THIS EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED NR AFOREMENTIONED BOUNDARIES AND COVERAGE SHLD INCREASE THIS REMAINDER OF AFTN/EVE AS WAVE ADVANCES. LAPS DATA INDICATES CAPES OF 1500 J/KG AND WEAK CAP IN WESTERN/SOUTHERN CWA WHICH IS INCLUDED IN SPC DY1 SLGHT RISK...AND SPC DISCUSSION DETAILS SVR POTENTIAL. ZONE WORDING FOR TONIGHT WILL BE WORDED AS SCT TSTMS. ADDITIONAL TSTMS TONIGHT IN EASTERN CO WILL ALSO BE OF CONCERN FOR SOUTHERN COUNTIES AS CONVECTION ORGANIZES INTO MCS AND MOVES E/SE INTO CWA LATE. BEYOND TONIGHT...MODELS HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY TIMING AND DETERMING EFFECT OF WAVES IN THIS W/NW FLOW REGIME...HOWEVER UNTIL WESTERN US RIDGE BUILDS FURTHER EAST OVER THE WEEKEND...SOME CHC FOR TSTMS REMAINS. FOLLOWED CLOSER TO ETA/MESOETA SOLUTIONS FOR FORECAST. BOUNDARIES ARE PUSHED SOUTH INTO SOUTHERN KS/OKLAHOMA FROM CONVECTION TONIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS SOUTH AND EAST FROM DAKOTAS WITH WEAK RETURN FLOW SETTING UP. THIS WILL PROVIDE AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE TO ALREADY JUICY ATMOSPHERE. MODEL TIMING OF NEXT WAVE DIVING S THROUGH WESTERN NEBRASKA OCCURS FRIDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME...HOWEVER CANNOT RULE AT THE POSSIBILITY OF SCT STORMS DURING THE DAY. MODELS/SPC DY2 OUTLOOK KEY IN ON MCS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA FRIDAY NIGHT AND TRACKING S/SE. WILL PLACE HIGHEST POPS IN SOUTHWEST/WESTERN COUNTIES. SATURDAY SHLD SEE A FAIR AMNT OF SUNSHINE AND WILL DOWNPLAY TSTM CHCS WITH THE IDEA THAT TIMING SHLD BE LATE. AS FAR AS TEMPS...WILL NOT DEVIATE MUCH FROM GUIDANCE. IN THE EXTENDED...WILL KEEP TSTM CHCS IN FCST SAT NIGHT/SUNDAY BEFORE RIDGE BUILDS EAST. DRY MONDAY...BUT TSTM CHCS MAY RETURN AS EARLY AS MONDAY NIGHT AS PACIFIC NORTHWEST SYSTEM APPROACHES AND FLATTENS RIDGE. FOR NOW WILL RETURN TSTM CHCS TO FCST TUESDAY. .GID...NONE. FAY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 20, 4:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
431 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM 4 S WILSONVILLE NE 1 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 FURNASLocal storm report, Jul 20, 5:52 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
552 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0540 PM PRAIRIE VIEW KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 PHILLIPSLocal storm report, Jul 20, 5:54 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
554 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0553 PM 2 N PRAIRIE VIEW KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 PHILLIPSLocal storm report, Jul 20, 6:12 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
612 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM 3 S LOOMIS NE 1 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 PHELPS
0610 PM 5 S LOOMIS NE 2.5 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 PHELPSLocal storm report, Jul 20, 6:29 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
629 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0627 PM HOLDREGE NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 PHELPSLocal storm report, Jul 20, 6:39 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
639 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0618 PM HOLDREGE NE 2.75 INCH HAIL
07/20/00 PHELPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 40 min |
| Jul 19, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 38 min |
| Jul 20, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 12:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 12:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard, Merrick | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 57 min |
| Jul 20, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 57 min |
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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.