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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Hastings, NE

June 25, 2000Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 1:17 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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 25, 2000, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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 25, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Fullerton, NE
Jun 25, 1:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Fullerton, 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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -296 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

586 
WUUS53 KGID 251817
SVRGRI
NEC121-125-251900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
117 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  NORTHERN MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 113 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF FULLERTON...OR ABOUT 31 MILES
  NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FULLERTON AT 140 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN NANCE AND NORTHERN MERRICK COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN
A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL.

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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 25, 1:15 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:15 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
115 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

CDFNT MOVING INTO CNTRL NEB THIS AFTN WITH VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE
IN ADVN...LAPS SHOWING 4 TO 5K J/KG WITH DPS IN THE LOW 70S AND
SUNSHINE HEATING THE SFC NICELY.  700 MB PROFILERS IND TROF OVR WRN
KS/SWRN NEB.  CWA WL BE UNDR TORNADO WATCH THIS EVE.

MDL SOUNDINGS IND PRECIPITAL WATER OVR KS CWA NEAR 2 INCHES...SO +RA
MENTION WL BE MAINTAINED ALNG WIDTH MENTION OF SVR.  CDFNT PROGGED
INTO NRN KS BY ARND MIDNGT...WL KP RA CHC OVRNGT FOR NOW OVR KS
COUNTIES GIVEN QUICK MDL MOVEMENT OF LATE.

MONDAY LKS TO BE A NICE FALL DAY AS HUDSON BAY LOW ALLOWS COOL AIR TO
FILTER OVR THE CNTRL PLNS IN WAKE OF CDFNT.  PREVIOUS SUBSEASONAL
TEMP PROG IS FINE.

TUE...MDLS IN AGREEMENT IN RTN OF MSTR OVR THE HIGH PLNS AND IN
SPREADING QPF OVR WRN NEB WITH A PASSING SHRTWV.  WL PERSIST WITH
PREVIOUS PROG IN SLOWING THE PROCESS DOWN AS MORE FAVORABLE MSTR
CNVRGNC/ERN CO SFC LOW IS PROGGED FOR LATER IN THE DAY.  WL ADD A
TUE NGT RA CHC IN THE EFP WITH WARM FRONT EXPECTED IN VICINITY...UNDR
MID LVL TROF.  DRY THE REST OF THE EFP WITH TMP RECOVERY TO SEASONAL
LVLS UNDR RISING HTS.

.GID...NONE.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-252100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1140 AM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT...

A COLD FRONT IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH
SOUTHEAST TODAY.  AHEAD OF THE FRONT...VERY WARM...MOIST AND
UNSTABLE AIR IS ALREADY IN PLACE.  THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS
POINT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.  THE FRONT IS
EXPECTED IN THE ORD AND LEXINGTON AREAS AROUND 3 PM AND REACH INTO
NORTHERN KANSAS AFTER 9 PM.

THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS...BUT
GIVEN THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS...ISOLATED TORNADOES CAN
NOT BE RULED OUT.  EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND KEEP UP TO DATE ON THIS DEVELOPING
SITUATION.

KISNER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	34 min
Jun 25, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick	34 min
Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	41 min
Jun 25, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Polk	46 min
Jun 25, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	46 min
Jun 25, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	50 min
Jun 25, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	39 min
Jun 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	40 min
Jun 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	45 min
Jun 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	42 min
Jun 25, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	43 min
Jun 25, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	50 min
Jun 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	48 min
Jun 25, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	38 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.