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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2000, 8:03 PM CDT for York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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
- Jun 11, 2000, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
496 WUUS53 KGID 120103 SVRGRI NEC185-120130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 803 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN YORK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BENEDICT...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF YORK...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BENEDICT...GRESHAM AND THAYER. HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY IN NORTHERN YORK COUNTY. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN YORK COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. $$ LAT...LON 4085 9780 4084 9740 4104 9739 4100 9777 NNNN MORITZ
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 Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 252 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 ...PRECIP CHANCES MAIN CONCERN THROUGH TUESDAY... MOIST UNSETTLED PATTERN TO REMAIN ENTRENCHED ACROSS THE REGION UNTIL STRONG WAVE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT PUSH THROUGH ON TUESDAY. CURRENTLY SHORTWAVE OVERHEAD SLOWLY SHIFTING EAST TRIGGERING A FEW SHOWERS FROM NE KS TO SD. SURFACE FLOW APPEARS SOMEWHAT JUMBLED WITH THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION. MAIN BOUNDARY/FRONT IS BEGINNING TO RETURN NORTH AS WINDS SHIFT FROM EASTERLY TO SOUTHEAST AND INCREASE ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA. TROUBLE IS TRYING TO PICK OUT THE NEXT TRIGGER FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING PRECIP. BEST GUESS APPEARS LATER TONIGHT AS A SHORTWAVE TRACKS EAST ACROSS DAKOTAS AND NEBRASKA FROM CO/WY. EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP HIGH PLAINS AND SLOWLY PROGRESS EAST. PROBLEM IS THEY MAY NOT HOLD TOGETHER LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE WORRY IS THE AREA IN WESTERN KS WHICH WAS SCOURED BY THE EARLIER CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY IS TOO STABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT. DEW POINTS HAVE FALLEN INTO THE LOW 50S AND REGION APPEARS QUITE STABLE. IF PRECIPITATION DOES MAKE IT HERE IT SHOULD BE LATE. LIGHT STEERING WINDS AND ABUNDANT MOISTURE MAKE HEAVY RAIN A POSSIBILITY AS WELL. TONIGHT AND TOMORROW EXPECT LITTLE CHANGE TO CURRENT FORECAST. FOR MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY WILL INCLUDE CHANCES AS ATMOSPHERE REMAINS RELATIVELY UNSTABLE AND WEAK IMPULSES RIDE THROUGH THE AREA. ETA/AVN DIFFER ON TIMING OF FRONT FOR TUESDAY. ETA HAS PICKED UP SPEED A FEW HOURS SINCE LAST RUN ON THE COLD FRONT ARRIVAL. WILL KEEP MENTION OF POPS THROUGH THE DAY AND@ EVENING THOUGH. LITTLE QUIBBLING WITH GUIDANCE TEMPS SO WILL GO CLOSE CLOUDS COULD PLAY HAVOC. IN THE EXTENDED WILL KEEP MENTION OF TSHOWERS TUESDAY NIGHT THEN DRY FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. GID...NONE. 10
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 2:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-112200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 230 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS DO NOT APPEAR TO SUPPORT SEVERE WEATHER ANY LONGER. ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS COULD FORM JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ACROSS THE REGION GIVEN THE MULTITUDE OF SURFACE BOUNDARIES LEFTOVER FROM THUNDERSTORMS LAST NIGHT. GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay | 32 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.