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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2000, 9:51 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 69 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
- May 7, 2000, 9:51 PM CDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawson County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 66 M | Gothenburg, NE | |
| May 7, 11:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Eddyville, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 080252 SVRGRI NEC047-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 951 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 951 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES EAST OF NORTH PLATTE...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOTHENBURG... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GOTHENBURG...COZAD...LEXINGTON. PEOPLE IN DAWSON COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDJS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. $$ LAT...LON 4104 10021 4072 10019 4069 9943 4104 9947 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 May 7, 3:34 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:34 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 333 PM CDT SAT MAY 6 2000 ONCE AGAIN GID CWFA WAS THE MAGNET FOR ANOTHER DAY OF LOW CLOUDS AND FOG. SOME CLEARING NOW TAKING PLACE FROM THE THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. EVENING PORTIONS OF ZONES REFLECT THAT. DAWSON COUNTY INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM...BUT ON THE FAR SOUTHEAST FRINGE OF THE BOX AREA. CAN'T REALLY ARGUE WITH THE PARAMETERS COMING TOGETHER FOR PRECIPITATION EVENT TONIGHT. THE 18Z ETA NOW COMING IN IS FURTHER SOUTH - ABOUT I-80 OR SO - WITH QPF. MM5 CHARTS SUGGESTS RAINFALL THAT AREA COULD RANGE FROM 1/3 TO 2/3RDS OF AN INCH. EXPECT SEVERE STORMS TO BE WIDESPREAD IN WESTERN NEBRASKA AND THEN ORGANIZE ALONG THE SOUTHEAST MOVING COLD FRONT LATE THIS EVENING AND DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF MONDAY. STRONG CAP IN PLACE IN SOUTHERN ZONES WILL BE TOUGH TO OVERCOME DESPITE POTENTIAL WHICH EXISTS. EXPECT AN INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET TO FEED INTO THIS SYSTEM WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE LIKELY THREAT...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN AREAS. SHIFTING WINDS OVERNIGHT WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE. GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH ETA AND SURROUNDING OFFICES IN EXPECTING FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH AND SOUTH OF CWFA MONDAY. DECENT SUBSIDENCE AND H85 FLOW SUGGEST BREEZY CONDITIONS FOR A TIME MONDAY. INCLUDE SMALL MONDAY EVENING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL BUT BELIEVE MUCH OF CONVECTION ACTIVITY WILL BE SOUTH OF CWFA. SEASONAL TEMPERATURES THE NEXT TWO DAYS WILL GIVE WAY TO A WARMING TREND BY WEEK/S END. .GID...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR DAWSON COUNTY. MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 64 min |
| May 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 57 min |
| May 8, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 58 min |
| May 8, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 41 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.