Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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
- May 17, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, NE, Hall County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Roseland, NE | |
| May 17, 8:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wood River, 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, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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
- 488 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 516 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 802 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 180131 SVRGRI NEC001-079-180200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 830 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHERN HALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 830 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF HASTINGS...OR OVER JUNIATA...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KENESAW AT 840 PM CDT DONIPHAN AT 850 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHERN ADAMS AND SOUTHERN HALL COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. $$ EWALD/KD LAT...LON 4053 9870 4050 9831 4086 9827 4086 9871 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, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 1:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 45 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, 4 hours 54 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 DOWNLocal storm report, May 17, 8:00 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
800 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0504 PM LONG ISLAND KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 PHILLIPS
0507 PM LONG ISLAND KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 PHILLIPS
0510 PM WOODRUFF KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 PHILLIPS
0535 PM ELWOOD NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 GOSPER
0535 PM LOUP CITY NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 SHERMAN
0651 PM ARCADIA NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 VALLEY
0651 PM 1 E HAZARD NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 SHERMAN
0656 PM 6 NNE HAZARD NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 SHERMAN
0745 PM ARCADIA NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/00 VALLEY
CZDECKERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 29 min |
| May 17, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 43 min |
| May 17, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 34 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.