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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 2000Greeley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2000, 10:53 PM CDT for Greeley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 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 12, 2000, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Greeley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 2000-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1538 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 2000-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGID 130354
SVRGRI
NEC077-130500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1053 PM CDT MON JUN 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREELEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1048 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREELEY    
  TO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTIA...OR FROM 55 MILES NORTH OF GRAND
  ISLAND TO 33 MILES EAST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS INCLUDE...

  SCOTIA
  GREELEY

PEOPLE IN GREELEY 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 4170 9868 4140 9875 4141 9833 4167 9833

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson39 min
Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson60 min
Jun 12, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDValley50 min
Jun 12, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman54 min
Jun 13, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMerrick, Nance45 min
Jun 13, 6:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDValley34 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.