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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2000, 6:43 PM CDT for Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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 28, 2000, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nance County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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 28, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Genoa, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 3804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
841 WUUS53 KGID 282343 SVRGRI NEC125-290015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 643 PM CDT MON AUG 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN NANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GENOA...OR ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GENOA AT 700 PM CDT PEOPLE IN EASTERN NANCE 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. $$ KD LAT...LON 4152 9771 4150 9798 4130 9798 4131 9771 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, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 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, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 46 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.