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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2000Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2000, 7:12 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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
May 26, 2000, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Phillips County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 7:30 PM CDTTornado F0Glade, 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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

733 
WUUS53 KGID 270015
SVRGRI
KSC147-270100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
712 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 712 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
  MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...OR 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SPEED...
  MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

PERSONS NEAR KIRWIN RESEVOIR AND ACROSS THE REST OF SOUTHERN 
PHILLIPS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY 
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL.

$$

LAT...LON 3971 9949 3958 9951 3957 9907 3973 9907

NNNN

09

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 26, 1:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
133 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

...MAIN CONCERN IS PRECIP THIS EVENING...

NEXT DISTURBANCE ROLLING NORTHEAST TODAY FROM SW KS SHOWING SHOWER
ACTIVITY WITH A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER.  EXPECT INTENSITY TO INCREASE
AS DAY GOES ALONG INTO THIS EVENING AS LOWER ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHERN
AND EASTERN KS DESTABLIZES WITH HEATING...ESPECIALLY IN CLEAR AREAS.
MOISTURE NO LONGER A PROBLEM AS MOST OF LOWER ATMOSPHERE WELL
SATURATED.  MOISTURE TRANSPORT LESS FAVORABLE AS 85H WINDS HAVE
BECOME A BIT MORE SOUTHWESTERLY AFTER BIG MCS LAST NIGHT/THIS
MORNING.  A SECONDARY VORT MAX STRETCHED BACK TO INTO NM/AZ WILL ALSO
MOVE INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND KEEP PRECIP GOING IN AT LEAST
SOUTHEAST CWA THROUGH EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.

AT THE SURFACE...LOW PRESSURE NEAR GLD SHOULD FINALLY RIDE EAST
TONIGHT ALONG THE WARM FRONT CURRENTLY ACROSS THE NE/KS BORDER.  SVR
WEATHER DEFINITE POSSIBILITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING
AHEAD OF LOW. ONCE THE SECOND DISTURBANCE CLEARS THE AREA SATURDAY
MORNING EXPECT CLEARING SKIES AND WARMER TEMPS THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

THEREFORE...TONIGHT WILL PROBABLY WORD LIKELYS IN SOUTH AND EAST
ZONES WITH SLIGHTLY LESS CHANCES NW.  WILL OF COURSE HAVE TO DEAL
WITH ON GOING AT PRESS TIME.  LOW TEMPS CLOSER TO COOLER FAN.

SATURDAY...LEANING TOWARD SHOWERS IN MORNING EAST ZONES. OTHERWISE
BECOMING PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY IN THE AFTERNOON WITH HIGHS NEAR
GUIDANCE.

REST OF THE PERIOD ZONAL FLOW WITH WARMING TEMPS AND DRY.  HOWEVER
WILL INTRODUCE SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH FRONT
AND MOISTURE IN THE AREA AND REMOVE WORDING FOR MONDAY. TEMPS TO
REMAIN SEASONABLE TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE.

.GID...NONE.

KLUCK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 5:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-270030-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
536 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS INCLUDING SMITH...OSBORNE...JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ARE EXPECTED TO TRACK
TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST THIS EVENING.  INITIALLY...DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WEST OF A LINE FROM HOLDREGE
TO PLAINVILLE.

IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER THE RISK OF TORNADOES WILL INCREASE
INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AS THE STORMS APPROACH A STATIONARY
FRONTAL BOUNDARY PARKED ACROSS THE AREA.  AT THEIR CURRENT RATE OF
MOVEMENT...THE STORMS WOULD REACH THE TORNADO WATCH AREA BETWEEN 7
AND 8 PM.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER
UPDATES...WATCHES OR WARNINGS.

DROZD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks45 min
May 26, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks52 min
May 26, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.