Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2000, 10:09 PM CDT for Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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
- May 29, 2000, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 300311 SVRGRI NEC099-137-300400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1009 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHERN PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 1009 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY TO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... HOLDREGE AT 1015 PM CDT AXTELL AT 1020 PM CDT MINDEN AT 1030 PM CDT HEARTWELL AT 1040 PM CDT PEOPLE IN KEARNEY COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PHELPS COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. $$ DDN 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 29, 3:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
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. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 9:43 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-300430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 943 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 3 AM... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR A GOOD PORTION OF TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. LARGE HAIL WILL BECOME A THREAT TO ACCOMPANY THE WINDS AS STORMS MOVE EAST OF HIGHWAY 281 LATER TONIGHT. THIS WATCH REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT EARLIER FOR VALLEY AND GREELEY COUNTIES AND A LARGE PART OF NORTHERN NEBRASKA. DROZD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 49 min |
| May 29, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 59 min |
| May 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Phelps | 59 min |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 45 min |
| May 29, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Merrick, Nance | 54 min |
| May 29, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Hamilton | 57 min |
| May 29, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, York | 58 min |
| May 29, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 58 min |
| May 29, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 55 min |
| May 29, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.