Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2000, 12:03 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 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 8, 2000, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 12:08 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kearney, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 080504 SVRGRI NEC019-080600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1203 AM CDT MON MAY 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1203 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY...OR OVER RIVERDALE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RIVERDATE AT 1205 AM CDT KEARNEY AT 1215 AM CDT GIBBON AT 1220 AM CDT SHELTON AT 1230 AM CDT WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL BETWEEN RIVERDALE AND AMHERST AT 1100 PM. PEOPLE IN BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ & LAT...LON 4103 9943 4067 9940 4069 9872 4103 9874 NNNN b
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 7, 3:34 PM CDT, 8 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 3:34 PM CDT, 8 hours 29 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 333 PM CDT SAT MAY 6 2000 ONCE AGAIN GID CWFA WAS THE MAGNET FOR ANOTHER DAY OF LOW CLOUDS AND FOG. SOME CLEARING NOW TAKING PLACE FROM THE THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. EVENING PORTIONS OF ZONES REFLECT THAT. DAWSON COUNTY INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM...BUT ON THE FAR SOUTHEAST FRINGE OF THE BOX AREA. CAN'T REALLY ARGUE WITH THE PARAMETERS COMING TOGETHER FOR PRECIPITATION EVENT TONIGHT. THE 18Z ETA NOW COMING IN IS FURTHER SOUTH - ABOUT I-80 OR SO - WITH QPF. MM5 CHARTS SUGGESTS RAINFALL THAT AREA COULD RANGE FROM 1/3 TO 2/3RDS OF AN INCH. EXPECT SEVERE STORMS TO BE WIDESPREAD IN WESTERN NEBRASKA AND THEN ORGANIZE ALONG THE SOUTHEAST MOVING COLD FRONT LATE THIS EVENING AND DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF MONDAY. STRONG CAP IN PLACE IN SOUTHERN ZONES WILL BE TOUGH TO OVERCOME DESPITE POTENTIAL WHICH EXISTS. EXPECT AN INCREASING LOW LEVEL JET TO FEED INTO THIS SYSTEM WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE LIKELY THREAT...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN AREAS. SHIFTING WINDS OVERNIGHT WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE. GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH ETA AND SURROUNDING OFFICES IN EXPECTING FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH AND SOUTH OF CWFA MONDAY. DECENT SUBSIDENCE AND H85 FLOW SUGGEST BREEZY CONDITIONS FOR A TIME MONDAY. INCLUDE SMALL MONDAY EVENING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL BUT BELIEVE MUCH OF CONVECTION ACTIVITY WILL BE SOUTH OF CWFA. SEASONAL TEMPERATURES THE NEXT TWO DAYS WILL GIVE WAY TO A WARMING TREND BY WEEK/S END. .GID...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM FOR DAWSON COUNTY. MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 69 min |
| May 7, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 64 min |
| May 8, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 58 min |
| May 8, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 41 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.