Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2000, 5:59 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 13, 2000, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Beloit, KS | |
| Oct 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Scottsville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 455 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 443 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 132301 SVRGRI KSC123-132345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 559 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELOIT...OR ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BELOIT AT 610 PM CDT ASHERVILLE AT 615 PM CDT SCOTTSVILLE AT 620 PM CDT PEOPLE IN EASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. $$ LAT...LON 3927 9832 3914 9816 3945 9770 3962 9793 KD 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 Oct 13, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 250 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000 RATHER TRICKY FORECASTS THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS PCPN IS THE MAIN CONCERN. UPPER AIR ANALYSIS FROM THIS MORNING SHOWING SOME INTERESTING FEATURES. THE 500MB ANALYSIS SHOWED A POTENT LOW SITUATED OVER MT WITH SIGNIFICANT HEIGHT FALLS AROUND 50 METERS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS. SOME MOISTURE FOUND JUST AHEAD OF THE LOW SO APPARENTLY GOOD LIFT PRESENT TO PUT IT THERE. AT 700MB AMPLE MOISTURE FOUND SOUTH AND WEST OF THE AREA BEING ADVECTED IN VIA SOUTHWEST FLOW. DIDO AT 850MB WITH AMPLE MOISTURE FOUND FROM JUST NORTH OF IOWA AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. AT THE SFC A TROF OF LOW PRESSURE IS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN NEBRASKA. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON IT SHOULD BE MOSTLY THROUGH OUR CWA. RATHER DRY AIR FOUND BEHIND THE TROF WHILE MOISTURE CONTINUES TO POOL AHEAD OF IT WITH SFC DEW POINTS NEAR 60 COMMON. A GLANCE AT VIS SATL PIX SHOWING GAPS IN THE CLOUD COVER OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. THIS IS HELPING THOSE MOIST AREAS TO BECOME WEAKLY UNSTABLE VIA DAYTIME HEATING. TONIGHT...THE QUESTION IS WILL IT REMAIN UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO SEE SOME STUFF POP OVER SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF THE CWA EARLY THIS EVENING. IT APPEARS THAT SPC HAS SOME CONCERNS AND HAS PLACED A SLGT RISK CLOSE TO OUR AREA AS PER LATEST SWODY1. AT THIS POINT AM NOT TRULY CONVINCED THAT POPS ARE NEEDED TONIGHT OVER SE CWA...BUT I DO HAVE THEM INCLUDED IN LATEST SET OF WRK ZONES ISSUED DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE BOUNDARY IS CLOSE AND NOT MOVING MUCH AT ALL. BUT JUST A SLIGHT PUSH WOULD PUT THE BRUNT OF ANY ACTIVITY INTO TOP'S CWA. WILL REEVALUATE JUST BEFORE ISSUANCE WHETHER TO PULL POPS DOWN THERE OR NOT. IN THE MEANTIME THE ETA PUSHES THROUGH A RATHER VIGOROUS VORT MAX THROUGH NEBRASKA EARLY THIS EVENING WITH STRONG DPVA. BUT A LOOK AT Q-VEC FIELDS SUGGEST THAT CAA IN THE MID LEVELS SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME ANY LIFT FROM DPVA. BESIDES ITS TOO DRY BEHIND THE TROF TO BE THINKING OF POPS ANYWAY. SATURDAY...NICE DAY ON TAP ACROSS THE PLAINS AS SUBSIDENCE RULES AND PLENTY OF INSOLATION EXPECTED. FAN GUID LOOKS A BIT TOO COOL SO WILL TREND TOWARDS THE FWC. SATURDAY NIGHT...HAVE AGAIN ADDED POPS OVER THE CWA. THE ETA AGAIN SHOWS ANOTHER VORT WHIPPING ACROSS THE AREA..BUT MOST OF THE ENERGY IS FOCUSED TO THE NORTH. THIS DPVA IS ALSO BEING ACCOMPANIED WITH SOME MID-LEVEL WAA. WILL INTRODUCE HIGHER POPS TO THE NORTH AND SLGT ELSEWHERE TO COVER. SUNDAY...A SHORT WAVE RIDGE DEVELOPS OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. TIME SECTIONS SUGGEST AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PERSISTING THROUGHOUT THE DAY...AT LEAST ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. THUS TEMPS A BIT COOLER AS CLOUD COVER HANGS IN. MOS GUID REASONABLE AND WILL USE. .GID...NONE. DEE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 13, 4:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-140300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 435 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR POTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM. UNDER NWS HASTINGS RESPONSIBILITY... ONLY MITCHELL COUNTY IS AFFECTED BY THE WATCH AT THIS TIME. FOLKS IN JEWEL AND OSBORNE COUNTIES THOUGH SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE OF POTENTIALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THEIR AREA. DAYTIME HEATING INDUCING MODERATE INSTABILITY...ALONG WITH A SURFACE TROF OF LOW PRESSURE WITH POOLING MOISTURE JUST AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INDUCING THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE BOUNDARY IS NEARLY STATIONARY AND NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE MUCH DURING THE EVENING HOURS. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT LARGE DAMAGING HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP. REMEMBER...PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. DEE
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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.