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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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
- Aug 28, 2000, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 282246 SVRGRI NEC019-282330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 544 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR AMHERST...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PLEASANTON AT 550 PM CDT RIVERDALE AT 555 PM CDT PEOPLE IN BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DlAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS ARE LIKELY. $$ KD LAT...LON 4100 9928 4070 9936 4070 9873 4097 9873 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 28, 2:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 212 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 IMPRESSIVE LATE AUGUST CDFNT MOVING THRU NW NEB THIS AFTN WITH 6 MB MB PRES RISES OVR SD AT 18Z/35-50 KT SFC WND LATE THIS MRNG. FRONT LKS TO X THE KS BRDR LTR THIS EVE WITH MUCH DRIER AIR...40S/50S DPS...IN THE WAKE. WL PROBABLY KP A SMALL POP FOR THE FROPA AS FRONT IS INTERSECTING BOUNDARY ACRS OUR WRN CWA...WITH ARND 70 DP STILL IN PLACE. WL SEE HOW THINGS DVLP THIS AFTN...AND THEN GO SLGTLY BLO MOS LOW 60S FOR OVRNGT LOWS. ISENTROPIC LIFT THEN TRIGGERS MDL QPF LATE TNGT/TUE WITH ETA THE QUICKEST IN LIFTING THE FRONT NWD AGAIN. WL FOLLOW A SLOWER SCENARIO AS WE THINK THE FRONT WL PENETRATE A BIT FURTHER S INTO KS GIVEN TDAS OBS...THEN LIFT NWD ON TUE NGT/WED. SO WL HOLD THE SHRA OFF TIL THEN. MEANWHILE...OVRRUNNING WL KP PLENTY OF CLDS WITH E SFC WND FOR TUE...THUS WL NOT EXCEED COOLER FWC HIGHS. TEMPS TO RECOVER ON WED AS BOUNDARY CLEARS THE AREA...WL PUT A SMALL MRNG POP FOR NEB ZONES. MDLS ADVCT VERY WARM 850 TEMPS...ARND 30 DEG C...OVR THE CWA AREA AGAIN ON WED AS PTN RECYCLES. IN THE EFP...CANADIAN/UKMO/MRF IN GENL AGRMT WITH SW FLOW OVR THE CNTRL PLNS AS PER TROF ALNG W COAST/RIDGE AXIS OVR GREAT LAKES. MRF IS MORE AMPLIFIED...AND IN AGRMT WITH UKMO ON LOW OVR LWR MS VALLEY BY SAT...WHILE CANADIAN KPS THE HIGH ENTRENCHED THERE. PTN OF XG SHRTWVS WITH FRONTS INTO NRN KS LKS TO CONT. SO...CHC TSRA WITH WED NGT FRONT FOLLOWED BY COOLER THU...THEN ANOTHER RA CHC THU NGT/FRI AS THE BNDRY AGAIN LIFTS NWD. DRY SAT WITH TEMP RECOVERY. .GID...NONE. 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.