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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Hastings, NE

October 13, 2000Thayer County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2000, 7:07 PM CDT for Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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: Oct 13, 2000, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Thayer County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGID 140012 COR
SVRGRI
NEC169-140045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
711 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN THAYER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUBBELL...OR ABOUT 26
  MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HUBBELL AT 715 PM CDT
  GILEAD AT 725 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN THAYER COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER 
THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

$$

FAY

LAT...LON 3988 9776 3975 9760 4006 9714 4023 9737

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, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 17 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, 2 hours 32 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

Local storm report, Oct 13, 6:45 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
645 PM CDT FRI OCT 13 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0613 PM    BELOIT                    KS    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/00   MITCHELL

0627 PM    1 SW SCOTTSVILLE          KS    .75 INCH HAIL
10/13/00   MITCHELL

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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.