Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 25, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Howard County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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, 7:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 89 E | Boelus, NE | |
| Aug 25, 7:54 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Dannebrog, 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 260014 SVRGRI NEC019-093-260115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 711 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBA TO 13 MILES NORTH OF RAVENNA...OR FROM 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND TO 36 MILES NORTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ELBA AT 740 PM CDT FARWELL AT 745 PM CDT POOLE AT 750 PM CDT BOELUS AT 755 PM CDT DANNEBROG AT 805 PM CDT WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL DRIVEN BY 80 MPH WINDS 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUP CITY...WHICH IS 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...AT 708 PM. PEOPLE IN HOWARD AND NORTHEASTERN BUFFALO COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THIS IS AN EXTREMEKLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE SHELTER IN YOUR BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ & 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, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 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
Local storm report, Aug 25, 6:15 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
615 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0612 PM 4 W ORD NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/25/00 VALLEYNearby
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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.