Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 7:20 PM CDT for Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2000, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gosper County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1000 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 230021 SVRGRI NEC073-230115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 720 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GOSPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 717 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JOHNSON LAKE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... JOHNSON LAKE AT 730 PM CDT ELWOOD AT 740 PM CDT SMITHFIELD AT 745 PM CDT AT 705 PM...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL NEAR COZAD AND DIME SIZED HAIL IN LEXINGTON. PEOPLE IN GOSPER COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ & LAT...LON 4069 9996 4035 10007 4036 9963 4068 9969 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 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 ...TSRA CHCS REMAIN MAIN CONCERN...ALTHO NOT AS MUCH AS PAST WEEK... 12Z UAA HAD UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFYING THRU HI PLAINS IN RESPONSE TO FAIRLY LARGE LO PUSHING INTO THE NW US. WV SVRL IMPRESSIVE SHORT WAVES THRU PLAINS IN NW FLOW...ONE TO EXIT CWA THIS AFTN IS MCV FROM LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION...ANOTHER DROPPING INTN NRN SD ATT MAY BE A PLAYER IN OUR WX TONIGHT. H85 MOISTURE IS POOLED FROM THE HI PLAINS INTO NRN TX AND ON INTO THE GULF COAST STATES. HWVR...SOME POCKETS OF 10C DWPTS STILL FOUND IN CNTRL/NRN PLAINS. AT THE SFC... HI PRES IS CENTERED TO OUR NE W/ WK FRONT DRAPED FROM CNTRL SD THRU CNTRL NEB INTO ERN KS/MO. TONGUE OF 60-65F DWPTS SHOWS UP ON MORNING ANALYSIS ALONG THIS FRONT THRU CWA. MAIN QUESTION TONIGHT IS WHETHER SUBSIDENCE IN BEHIND EXITING MCV WILL SQUELCH CONVECTION THAT FORMS IN ADVANCE OF DKTS VORT AS IT DROPS DOWN ALONG THAT FRONT. W/ PLENTY OF SUN CNTRL SD INTO NC NEB EXPECT ACTIVITY TO FIRE THIS AFTN AND DROP NEARLY STRAIGHT SOUTH AGAIN. WL MONITOR SAT/RADAR TRENDS UP TO ISSUANCE...BUT INITIAL THOUGHT IS TO LEAVE CURRENT 20/30 POPS RUNNING...ALTHO I/M NOT SURE WHO HAS THE BEST SHOT YET. OTHERWISE...LOWS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY IN THE M50S/L60S THE PAST SVRL NIGHTS & SEE NO REASON TO DEVIATE FROM GUIDANCE WHICH SUGGESTS THE SAME TONIGHT. W/ RIDGE GRADUALLY BUILDING EAST...WX REGIME TO CHANGE AS CANADIAN SFC HI SHIFT EAST AND DECENT SOUTHERLY FLOW BRINGS HIGHS CLOSE TO NORMAL SUMMERTIME VALUES. H85 TEMPS SUPPORT MID 80S TO 90ISH IN SW AREAS WHICH IS MORE OR LESS IN LINE W/ GUID. AVN/NGM BOTH BRING QPF BACK LATE SUN NIGHT INTO MONDAY AS THEY ARE FASTER THAN ETA IN BRINGING STRONG WV OUT OVER TOP OF RIDGE. ETA HOLDS OFF FOR A LATE MON/MON NIGHT EVENT. FOR NOW...WILL GO W/ SCT POPS ON MON. TOMR NIGHT TO BE MORE MILD AS SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTS TO FEED IN WARMER AIR...GENERALLY IN THE 60S. WL RANGE MON IN THE 80S W/ ANTICIPATED MIX OF SUN/CLDS. WL CONT TSRA CHCS INTO TUE EXTENDED AS FRONT TO BE DRAPED THRU AREA AFTER MON/MONDAY NIGHT SYS. PAST THAT...ITS A CRAP SHOOT. MRF SETS FRONT UP IN DKTS...BUT DOESN/T BUILD UPPER RIDGE IN ALL THAT STRONG. CONSENSUS OF MEDIUM RANGE MDLS SEEMS TO PUT AREA IN PRETTY DECENT PLACE...RELATIVE TO UPPER HI...TO SEE MCS ACTIVITY. WL FOLLOW OAX AND LBFS LEAD FROM OVERNIGHT EXTENDED PACKAGE AND KEEP CHCS IN THRU EXTENDED. TEMPS TO BE PRETTY CLOSE TO SEASONAL W/ HIGHS NEAR 90 AND LOWS IN THE 60S. .GID...NONE. DEG
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 5:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
525 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0518 PM 3 SE SPALDING NE 1 INCH HAIL
07/22/00 GREELEYSpecial weather statement, Jul 22, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-230330- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 537 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM NORTHERN NEBRASKA SOUTH INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SEVERE...AND PRODUCED LARGE HAIL DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT...WITH A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS...HOWEVER DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. ALTHOUGH THE ENVIRONMENT IS NOT IDEAL FOR TORNADOES...SPOTTERS SHOULD ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SIGNS OF ROTATION IN THE STORMS...SUCH AS ROTATING WALL CLOUDS...FUNNEL CLOUDS AND TORNADOES. DDN
Local storm report, Jul 22, 6:34 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
634 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....Local storm report, Jul 22, 7:06 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
706 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0701 PM 5 E COZAD NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/22/00 DAWSONLocal storm report, Jul 22, 7:08 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
708 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
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0707 PM LEXINGTON NE .75 INCH HAIL
07/22/00 DAWSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.