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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 9:06 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 12, 2000, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 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 02:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Gothenburg, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 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
- 1538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
112 WUUS53 KGID 130206 SVRGRI NEC047-130245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 906 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 859 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOTHENBURG...OR ABOUT 31 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GOTHENBURG WILLOW ISLAND COZAD LEXINGTON PEOPLE IN WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. $$ LAT...LON 4103 10018 4072 10020 4073 9969 4103 9971 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 Jun 12, 2:51 PM CDT, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:51 PM CDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 251 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000 ...PRECIP CHANCES AND FRONTAL TIMING MAIN CONCERNS... LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION WELL EAST OF AREA NOW LEAVING CLEAR SKIES IN ITS WAKE. STRONG SUBSIDENCE BEHIND WAVE LEADING TO STABLE CONDITIONS WILL SLOWLY DESTABILIZE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SURFACE HEATING AND MOISTURE ADVECTION. AS THE MAIN TROUGH CONTINUES TO PUNCH THROUGH THE NORTHERN ROCKIES TODAY LEE SIDE TROUGHING UNDERWAY. THE FIRST ROUND OF CONVECTION...WHICH IS ALREADY UNDERWAY...SHOULD MOVE EASTWARD THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT WHERE CONDITIONS ARE MORE UNSTABLE. A LLJ OF 40 TO 50 KNOTS SHOULD HELP TO KEEP THE CONVECTION GOING THROUGH THE EVENING WITH SOME CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE NIGHT. THE STRONGEST DYNAMICS APPEAR TO BE NORTH OF THE AREA BUT STILL EXPECT STRONG TSTORMS TO MAKE IT INTO THE CWA LATE. WILL WORD 40 POPS ACROSS REGION OVERNIGHT. TOMORROW MORNING BIG QUESTION WILL BE HOW FAR SOUTH PREVIOUS CONVECTION PUSHES MAIN BOUNDARY SOUTH IN CWA OR EVEN IF THE CONVECTION DISSIPATES BEFORE THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE CWA. EXPECT INITIAL FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO MAKE DASH ACROSS WESTERN CWA IN THE MID MORNING. HOWEVER DUE TO DIURNAL TIMING WILL CONTINUE ONLY CHANCE POPS WITHOUT MENTION OF STRONG STORMS THERE. ETA/AVN TUESDAY BRINGS FRONT THROUGH CENTRAL CWA BY 18Z THEN ENTIRE CWA BY 00Z. STRONG TO SEVERE TSTORMS SHOULD ORGANIZE SOMEWHERE SOUTH AND EAST OF HASTINGS IN THE AFTERNOON AND ROLL SOUTHEASTWARD. EXPECT THE HEAVIEST STUFF TO BE OUT OF THE AREA BY 00Z. GUIDANCE TEMPS SEEM REASONABLE THROUGHOUT. ONCE FRONT PASSES STRONG NW WINDS DEVELOP AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. COOLER DRIER AIR WILL BE ON TAP THROUGH THURSDAY. THURSDAY NIGHT SOME QUESTION WHETHER TO CALL FOR CHANCES. MEDIUM RANGE INDICATES SECONDARY STRONG NW SYSTEM CARVING OUT TROUGH OVER THE REGION LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. WILL INTRODUCE CHANCES HERE. THEN COOLER TEMPS FOR SATURDAY. GID...NONE. 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 34 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.