Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 4:03 PM CDT for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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 25, 2000, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Republican City, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 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 252104 SVRGRI NEC065-083-252145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 403 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF BEAVER CITY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF NORTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOLLINGER AT 415 PM CDT STAMFORD AT 425 PM CDT PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN FURNAS AND SOUTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. $$ q FAY 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, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 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, 4 hours 23 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
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:35 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-252105- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 335 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR A PART OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 495 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... DAWSON SHERMAN VALLEY GREELEY A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED INTO THE AREA. BEHIND THIS FRONT THE ATMOSPHERE IS STABILIZING...REDUCING THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER THE TORNADO WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE AREA SOUTHEAST OF A SAINT PAUL TO JOHNSON LAKE LINE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA COULD STILL BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 43 min |
| 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, 4:17 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.