Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

May 29, 2000, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)

Expired

May 29, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT

In force

59 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Dawson County, NE

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 300203
SVRGRI
NEC047-300300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
901 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 901 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 23
  MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...OR OVER GOTHENBURG...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED 10 TO 12 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN IN GOTHENBURG
AT 845 PM CDT.  

STRONG WINDS HAVE ALREADY REACHED ALL OF DAWSON COUNTY...INCLUDING 
LEXINGTON.  

PEOPLE IN DAWSON COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A| STURDY STRUCTURE AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG
AND DAMAGING WINDS.

$$

&

DDN

LAT...LON 4102 10019 4078 10021 4071 9943 4104 9942

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NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
310 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

CHC OF TSRA RMNS THE QN OF THE FP WITH UPR JET OVR THE NRN PLNS/H5
HIGH OVR NM/SFC FRONT SAGGING TO NR THE SD/NEB BRDR. SHRTWV MOVG ACRS
CO THIS AFTN ALSO EXPECTED TO FIRE SOME TSRA OVR HIGH PLNS AREAS
BEING HEATED TO NR CONVECTIVE TEMPS.

PRIMARY PCPN THREAT EXPECTED TO BE OVR SD/NRN NEB WHERE MID LVL TEMPS
ARE COOLER AND IN 850 MSTR CNVRGNC AREA ALNG THE FRONT.  GENLY...THE
MDLS AGGRESSIVELY SEND FRONT THRU THE NEB CWA ON TUE MRNG...THEN
HANG IT UP FOR FURTHER FOCUS OF TSRA THE REST OF THE FP.  MDLS ALSO
CONT THE AGGRESSIVE ADVCTN OF H7 TEMPS FM YSTRDAYS RUNS...WHICH ALNG
WITH THE EARLY MRNG LAPS...WERE 2-3 DEGS TOO WARM...ALLOWING JUST
ENOUGH POSITIVE AREA FOR LAST NGTS HIGH PLNS CONVECTION TO WEAKLY
PERSIST INTO PARTS OF CWA.  MDL SOUNDINGS...EVEN AFTR SHAVING MID
LVL TEMPS A COUPLE OF DEGREES...SHOW TOO MUCH CIN FOR FOR TSRA
ACTIVITY OVR ALL OF BUT NRN CWA TNGT...FOR SFC BASED AND ELEVATED
LIFT.  GOES SOUNDINGS SHOW CAP HAS STRENGTHENED OVR KS THIS AFTN AND
CLDS COMING OFF THE MTNS LK FLAT...SO WL DROP SLGT CHC FM SRN CWA...
PERSIST CHC ELSEWHERE.

FRONT PROGRESS OBVIOUSLY CRITICAL FOR TUE TEMP PROG AND FOR MSTR
FOCUS COME TUE NGT.  10 DEG DIFFERENCE IN MOS GUIDANCE ILLUSTRATES
MDL ARGUMENT.  AM NOT WILD ABOUT ETA/AVN FRONTAL PROGRESS ALTHOUGH
HEALTHY MCS ACRS NRN NEB COULD CERTAINLY SEND IT THROUGH.  LLVL CLDS
MAY PERSIST FOR A WHILE UNDR THE INVERSION...BUT WL GIVE CURRENT TEMP
PROG AN UPWARD BUMP WITH WARM FRONT REPOSITIONING/LONG DAY TO
PARTIALLY MIX OUT STILL-WARM LLVL SOUNDING.

WL MAINTAIN NOCTURNAL TSRA PATTERN INTO THE EFP AS TSRA ACTIVITY WL
CONT ALNG SWD SINKING BAROCLINIC BOUNDARY.

.GID...NONE.

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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.