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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT for Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 25, 2000, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Valley County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 6:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Ord, 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 252250 SVRGRI NEC175-252330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 549 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT HARTSUFF STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ELYRIA AT 555 PM CDT ORD AT 605 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHERN VALLEY COUNTY 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. $$ LAT...LON 4186 9902 4165 9919 4147 9876 4173 9878 DDN 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 Aug 25, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 208 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000 CHC OF TSRA THE PRIMARY QN OF THE FP WITH SFC BNDRY SLOGGING THROUGH NW NEB TDA WITH TSRA FIRING OVR SD WITH MID LVL SHRTWV...700 MB TROF EXTENDS INTO ERN CO AS PER EARLY AFTN PROFILERS. CIN RMNS HIGH SO NEB ACTIVITY IS WEAK AND SPORADIC. HOWEVER...LAPS/MSAS/ GOES SOUNDINGS MAINTAIN INSTABILITY SO WL HAVE TO KP CHC POPS ON THE BNDRY AS SHRTWV/AFTN HEATING CONT TO ERODE THE CAP. SFC WIND HAD TURNED TO THE NORTHWEST OVR THE WRN 3RD OF NEB BY 18Z...SO ETA/NGM 1ST PD SOLNS FOR PROGRESSION OF BNDRY INTO NRN KS BY SAT MRNG WL BE ACCEPTED. SAT AND SAT NGT...DRY UNDR SHRTWV RIDGE FOR MOST OF AREA. EXCEPTION WL BE KS CWA WHERE STALLED BNDRY MAY AGAIN FOCUS TSRA ON SAT EVE. WL NOT EXCEED COOLER FWC HIGHS FOR NEB CWA ON SAT WITH NE TO E SFC WIND TO COOL THE BROW. LOW TO MID 90S LKS OK FOR KS CWA GIVEN WARM TEMP PROFILE...BNDRY UNCERTAINTY. SOME FOG/ST AGAIN POSSIBLE BY SUN MRNG OVR ERN CWA AS UPSLOPE DRAWS LLVL MSTR BACK INTO THE CWA. SIMILIAR PTN AS TDA FOR SUN INTO MON WITH SD SFC LOW/MID LVL TROF OVR THE HIGH PLNS. FAVORABLE MSTR CNVRGNC AREA AND MID LVL SPPRT ARE AVN/MESOETA PROGGED TO BE N OF AREA...SO WL KP THESE LATTER PDS DRY AND WARM UNTIL MON NGT CDFNT. IN THE EFP...POSITION/PROGRESS OF SFC BNDRY IS THE QN AND LOW CONFIDENCE IN MDL SOLNS PROHIBITS REMOVAL OF MON NGT/TUES TSRA AT THIS TIME. WL DRY IT OUT ON WED WITH UPR/MID LVL HIGH STILL PROGGED OVR NR THE MID MS/LWR MO VALLEY AS PER UKMO/CANADIAN. MRF OHIO VALLEY SOLN LKS TO BE TOO FAR E...SO TEMPS WL BE WARMER THAN FMR NMBRS BY MIDWEEK. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 11:59 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-252100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1159 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT... A COOL FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA LATE TODAY INTO TONIGHT. THIS FRONT WILL PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN NON SEVERE. HOWEVER...IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION TO SEE ISOLATED LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY AROUND 6 PM AND THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. DEG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 30 min |
| Aug 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 65 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.