Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT for Hall County, Howard County, Merrick 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
- Sep 3, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hall County, NE, Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | St Libory, 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 040134 SVRGRI NEC079-093-121-040215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 834 PM CDT SUN SEP 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN HALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WESTERN MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHAPMAN AT 910 PM CDT PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD...NORTHEASTERN HALL AND WESTERN MERRICK COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ FAY LAT...LON 4113 9840 4092 9844 4101 9811 4127 9797 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 Sep 3, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT SUN SEP 3 2000 ...MAIN CONCERN IS CHANCES FOR THUNDER TONIGHT AS WELL AS UPCOMING HEAT BLAST ON TUESDAY... WV IMAGERY AND WIND PROFILERS THIS AFTERNOON CLEARLY SHOW A POTENT VORT MAX ENTERING NEBRASKA FROM NE CO WHERE SOME CONVECTION HAS ALREADY FIRED. OTHER VORT MAXES ALSO NOTED BEING EJECTED INTO THE HIGH PLAINS FROM THE UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER THE PAC NW. MEANWHILE UPPER LEVEL HIGH OVER THE SRN STATES AND THE AFOREMENTIONED PAC NW LOW CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO STREAM AMPLE SUB-TROPICAL MOISTURE INTO THE CENTRAL STATES. AT THE SFC...RATHER COMPLICATED/UNORGANIZED PATTERN WITH A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE SPRAWLED OUT ACROSS THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS. A FEW BOUNDARIES THOUGH WERE DETECTED THOUGH. ONE WARM FRONT LAID ACROSS CENTRAL SD INTO NE NEB. TEMPS BEHIND THE FRONT WERE WELL INTO THE 90S WHILE COOLER 70S PREVAILED AHEAD OF THE FRONT. ALSO NOTEWORTHY WAS A COUPLE OF SFC LOW PRESSURE TROFS LAID OUT ACROSS KS. TONIGHT...APPROACHING VORT MAX ROLLING THROUGH DECENT LAYER DPVA SHOULD HELP DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE AND PRODUCE SOME SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT. TOTAL-TOTALS AS WELL AS K-INDICES SUGGEST HIGHER POPS FOR THE CWA. BUT AT THIS POINT WITH NO REAL FOCUS FOR STORMS WILL BROADBRUSH AND COVER WITH SLIGHT POPS OVER THE ENTIRE CWA. ALSO CAN'T AT THIS POINT RULE OUT ANY FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE MESOETA ADVCTS IN HEALTHY BNDRY LAYER MOISTURE WITH A SOUTHEASTERLY COMPONENT. LABOR DAY...SHOULD BE A PCPN FREE HOLIDAY FOR ONCE...BUT HEFTY MOISTURE ABOVE 700MB...AS PER TIME SECTIONS...SHOULD HELP RESTRICT SUNSHINE WITH MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS PREVAILING. STILL THOUGH...STRONG SOUTHERLY WAA OVER THE PLAINS SHOULD HELP CATAPULT HIGHS INTO THE 90S EASILY. MONDAY NIGHT...NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN OVERNIGHT AS HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS ANCHORED OVER THE PLAINS AND KEEPS THE PACIFIC COAST TROF AT BAY. STILL THOUGH...STRONG WAA PERSISTS INTO THE CWA. FWC DOESN'T LOOK TOO UNREASONABLE AND WILL FOLLOW. TUESDAY...HOT TEMPS TO ONCE AGAIN GRACE US WITH ITS PRESENCE. AT THIS POINT...TOTALLY REJECT THE FWC AND FAN NUMBERS. WAY TOO COOL. THE ETA SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY MODEL WITH A REASONABLE GRASP ON THE UPCOMING WARMUP. THE FWC AND FAN APPARENTLY ARE LEANING HEAVILY TOWARDS CLIMATOLOGY FOR HIGHS EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SET UP IN A STRONG WAA PATTERN. ETA 850MB TEMPS SUGGEST HIGHS SHOULD REACH THE UPPER 90S IN MOST LOCATION WITH A FEW 100S FURTHER SOUTH. THIS LOOKS MUCH MORE REALISTIC AND WILL FOLLOW. .GID...NONE. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 33 min |
| Sep 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 45 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.