Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 25, 2000, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 252006 SVRGRI KSC183-252045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 306 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN SMITH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 301 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL SMITH COUNTY...OR ABOUT 32 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN SMITH COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM CDT. PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN SMITH COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ KISNER LAT...LON 3992 9891 3979 9874 3997 9852 4001 9873 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 25, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 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. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 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, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.