Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas; Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 23, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Phillips County, KS, Harlan County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Long Is, KS |
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 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
063 WUUS53 KGID 240011 SVRGRI KSC147-NEC083-240100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 711 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HARLAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHWESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF LONG ISLAND...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LONG ISLAND AT 720 PM CDT WOODRUFF AT 725 PM CDT ORLEANS AT 735 PM CDT HARLAN COUNTY DAM AT 745 PM CDT HUNTLEY AT 750 PM CDT PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN HARLAN AND NORTHWESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ 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 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 109 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 2000 ...QUESTION OF THE DAY IS WHICH BOUNDARY TO KEY ON... LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNINGS CONVECTION HAVE LEFT SEVERAL IMPORTANT BOUNDARIES IN THEIR WAKE. THE MOST OBVIOUS ON VISIBLE IS AN ARC EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA TO JUST NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND THEN BACK THROUGH NORTHEAST CO. A WEAK DIFFUSE BOUNDARY LIES TO THE SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL KS. THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY IS MAINLY A DEW POINT BOUNDARY BETWEEN JUICY AND VERY JUICY AIR. DEEP MOISTURE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A PROBLEM TODAY WITH 85H DEWPOINTS AROUND 15 JUST SOUTH AND SURFACE DEWPOINTS HAVE RISEN THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE 70S AROUND THE AREA. THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY WILL MOST LIKELY MAKE SOME HEADWAY NORTH TO AT LEAST ALONG THE NE/KS BORDER BY LATER TODAY. BUT BOTH/EITHER BOUNDARIES COULD LIGHT UP LATER TODAY AS 7H-5H WAVE SLOWLY PULLS EAST THROUGH KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ETA APPARENTLY DEALS A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE REST WITH PRECIP PLACEMENT SO FAR TODAY AND TO A DEGREE LAST NIGHT. ALSO LIKE THE ETAS SLOWER PROGRESSION OF THE COLD FRONT INTO THE AREA SUNDAY. FOR TONIGHT WILL BUMP ALL ZONES TO 40 POPS UNLESS SOMETHING HAPPENS BEFORE ISSUANCE. SOME CONCERN WITH HEAVY RAINS AND TRAINING WITH RELATIVELY WEAK WEST-EAST FLOW ALOFT PARALLEL TO PRESENT BOUNDARIES...ABUNDANT MOISTURE TO WORK WITH AND ACTIVE LLJ. SEVERE WX IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE MAINLY IN THE FORM OF HAIL AND DOWNBURST WINDS IF IT DOES MATERIALIZE. EXPECT MORE OF THE SAME TOMORROW DEPENDING ON WHERE THE BOUNDARIES ARE PUSHED BUT LITTLE CONFIDENCE ON TRYING TO DETERMINE WHERE THEY WILL BE. RIDGING BEHIND 5H WAVE ON IN THE DAY SHOULD KEEP PRECIP IN CHECK DURING THE DAY BUT THE NEXT SERIES OF WAVES FOLLOWS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY ALONG WITH A STRONG COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE SUNDAY MORNING. TIMING OF FRONT IS POOR FOR OPTIMAL LIFT BUT CERTAINLY UNSETTLED ENOUGH TO WARRANT CHANCE POPS ON SUNDAY NONETHELESS. WILL PROBABLY END UP A COUPLE OF DEGREES WARMER THAN GUIDANCE THROUGHOUT FORECAST. MINS SEEM ESPECIALLY COOL WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 70S WILL UP THEM SOMEWHAT. IN THE EXTENDED...FOR MONDAY WITH FRONT THROUGH BUT STALLED OVER KANSAS AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP IN THE SOUTH LINGERS. AVN SHOWS MCS TYPE COMPLEX ASSOCIATED WITH FAIRLY VIGOROUS WAVE IN WESTERN KS. WILL LEAVE TUESDAY DRY ANmD THEN SLIGHT CHANCE AGAIN WEDNESDAY AS NEXT FRONT MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH THE AREA. GID...NONE. LAST
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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.