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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE

May 29, 2000Buffalo County, Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2000, 9:31 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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 29, 2000, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 29, 10:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EBertrand, 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1075 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGID 300232
SVRGRI
NEC019-137-300330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 931 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...OR 13 MILES WEST OF ELM CREEK...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN PHELPS AND BUFFALO COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN
A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THIS
IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE SHELTER IN YOUR BASEMENT OR
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

DDN

LAT...LON 4102 9941 4064 9939 4069 9965 4052 9962
          4052 9918 4067 9919 4070 9879 4103 9880

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson49 min
May 29, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson59 min
May 29, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney, Phelps51 min
May 29, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall45 min
May 29, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Merrick, Nance54 min
May 29, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Hamilton57 min
May 29, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, York58 min
May 29, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPolk58 min
May 29, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer55 min
May 29, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDWebster50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.