Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 2000, 2:27 PM CST for Howard County, Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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 29, 2000, 2:27 PM CST (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2:45 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Palmer, NE | |
| Oct 29, 2:48 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Cushing, NE | |
| Oct 29, 3:10 PM CST | Hail 1 | Fullerton, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 11:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 292028 SVRGRI NEC093-121-125-292115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 227 PM CST SUN OCT 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHWESTERN NANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA WESTERN MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 222 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WORMS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PALMER AT 245 PM CST ST. PAUL AT 250 PM CST CUSHING AT 300 PM CST PEOPLE IN EASTERN HOWARD...SOUTHWESTERN NANCE AND WESTERN MERRICK COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. $$ LAT...LON 4105 9850 4104 9818 4136 9815 4137 9851 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 29, 2:25 PM CST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 2:25 PM CST, 2 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 225 PM CST SUN OCT 29 2000 THREAT OF FUNNELS AND TORNADOES FOR THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CWA WL LINGER THROUGH LATE AFTN AS NEGATIVELY TILTED LOW TRUNDLES NEWD. 19Z PROFILERS SHOW TROF AXIS CUTTING ACRS THE HEART OF THE CWA WITH NMRS SHRA/TSRA ACRS CWA. SATELLITE INDS SOME BINOVC TO THE W OF THE AREA...AND EXPECT CLEARING LTR THIS EVE UNDER POST SYS SBSDNC...CURRENT PROG OF DVLPG FOG AFT MIDNIGHT WITH RESIDUAL MSTR LKS FINE. INSOLATION UNDR SHRTWV RIDGE ON MON AND LGT SRLY WND WL SPPRT A HEALTHY TEMP RECOVERY...WL SPLIT GUIDANCE NMBRS AND GO ARND 70 FOR THE HIGH. WL INTRO RA FOR CWA ON TUE AFTN AS NXT SYS...CURRENTLY SLIDING ASHORE OVR CA BGNS ITS APPROACH. AS STORM IS VERY SIMILIAR TO TDAS...WL TREAT IT AS SUCH WITH LIKELY POPS OVR SRN CWA...WITH PCPN SPREADING NWD INTO THE EFP. IN THE EFP...MRF/UKMO/CANADIAN ARE SIMILIAR IN HANDLING OF THIS NXT RA MAKER. CANADIAN HAS IT FURTHER N THAN OTHER MDLS AND MRF IS DEEPER ALOFT WITH A 100 M 5H HT FALL FROM 72 TO 84 HRS. WL KP THE LIKELY MENTION IN TUE NGT AND WED PORTION OF EFP. THU AND FRI CURRENTLY LK DRY AS THE THREE AFORE-MENTIONED MDLS PROG A RIDGE OVR THE CNTRL PLNS AS TDAS ALEUTIAN LOW DIGS TWD SRN CA. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 10:00 AM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-292100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1000 AM CST SUN OCT 29 2000 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH AT LEAST 4 PM TODAY...EAST OF A LINE FROM OSBORNE KANSAS...TO MINDEN...TO LEXINGTON NEBRASKA. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...BUT ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. STRONG LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. AS THE LOW PASSES...COLD AIR ALOFT TEAMED WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUD COVER...WILL LEAD TO A MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. WIND FIELDS NEAR THE LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...INCLUDING SMALL SUPERCELLS. IN TURN...THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF TORNADOES WILL EXIST WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. DUE TO THE LOCATION OF THE LOW...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTH OR NORTHWEST. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD BE MONITOR THIS SITUATION CLOSELY...AND BE PREPARED FOR QUICK DEPLOYMENT. RESIDEN TS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...SHOULD A THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. MORITZ
Local storm report, Oct 29, 2:07 PM CST, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
207 PM CST SUN OCT 29 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0120 PM 1E GLENVIL NE TORNADO
10/29/00 CLAY BRIEF TOUCHDOWN
0129 PM INLAND NE TORNADO
10/29/00 CLAY BRIEF TOUCHDOWN
MORITZ
jThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 10:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 34 min |
| Oct 29, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 25 min |
| Oct 29, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Nance | 33 min |
| Oct 29, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 28 min |
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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.