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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Hastings, NE

July 2, 2000Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2000, 10:14 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: Jul 2, 2000, 10:14 PM CDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Fillmore County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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
Jul 2, 10:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Geneva, 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 3429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1279 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 8.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

356 
WUUS53 KGID 030316
SVRGRI
NEC059-030400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1014 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF EXETER...OR ABOUT 23 MILES       
  SOUTHEAST OF YORK...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MILLIGAN AT 1030 PM CDT
  
PEOPLE IN FILLMORE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 
60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER ARE LIKELY.

$$

KD

LAT...LON 4069 9738 4069 9780 4035 9782 4036 9737

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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 Jul 2, 2:35 PM CDT, 7 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:35 PM CDT, 7 hours 39 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
235 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000

TYPICAL EARLY JULY FORECAST...HOT AND HUMID.

MODELS NOT IN GREAT AGREEMENT TODAY WITH NGM THE ODD MAN OUT.  AVN A
LITTLE SLOWER AND WEAKER AS NORMAL SO WILL GO WITH AN ETA/AVN
COMPROMISE WITH EMPHASIS ON ETA.

WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY IN AREA THIS EVENING BUT WITH NO UPPER SUPPORT
AND WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT...NOT MUCH TO OCCUR WITH BOUNDARY.  DEW
POINTS HAVE DRIED OUT IN WESTERN PORTION OF FORECAST AREA INTO THE
MIDDLE 60S...BUT MIDDLE 70S REMAIN OVER EASTERN PORTION.  WITH WEAK
WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES...TEMPS IN DRIER AIR TO FALL BACK QUICKLY BUT
MOISTURE WILL PUSH BACK INTO THE WEST.  SO SHOULD SEE AN EARLY LOW
WITH TEMPERATURES REBOUNDING AS MOISTURE FLOWS BACK.  LOWS SHOULD
RANGE FROM THE UPPER 60S NORTH AND WEST TO THE MIDDLE 70S SOUTH.

A HOT AND HUMID DAY FORECAST FOR MONDAY WITH NO SUPPORT FOR
STORMS. TEMPERATURES TO CLIMB INTO THE 90S MOST AREAS.  DEW POINTS
IN THE UPPER 60S TO MIDDLE 70S TO MAKE FOR RATHER STUFFY DAY.

WEAK UPPER WAVE TO MOVE INTO REGION MONDAY NIGHT AND WITH ABUNDANT
MOISTURE...WILL CONTINUE MARGINAL CHANCE FOR STORMS.  BEST CHANCES
WILL BE IN THE NORTH AND WEST WHERE UPPER SUPPORT TO BE GREATER.

WAVE MOVES ON EAST FOR THE HOLIDAY AND SURFACE TROF TO REMAIN OUT
WEST SO IT SHOULD BE ANOTHER HOT...HUMID AND SOMEWHAT BREEZY DAY.
UNDER PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES...TEMPERATURES AGAIN TO CLIMB INTO THE
90S.

ANOTHER WAVE AND SURFACE TROF HELP TO BRING CHANCE FOR STORMS ON
WEDNESDAY SO WILL ALSO CONTINUE CHANCES IN FIRST PERIOD OF THE
EXTENDED.  AFTER THAT...DONT SEE MUCH CHANGE TO THE TYPICAL SUMMER
WEATHER PATTERN IN THE DROUGHT REGION OF THE CENTRAL PLAINS.
TEMPERATURES TO BE AROUND 70 OVERNIGHT AND IN THE 90S DURING THE
DAY.

GID...NONE.

KISNER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-030100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
543 PM CDT SUN JUL 2 2000

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THIS EVENING OR TONIGHT
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS AND HAVE BEEN
SPREADING VERY SLOWLY EAST.  THESE STORMS COULD DEVELOP EASTWARD INTO
THE STOCKTON AND PLAINVILLE AREAS THIS EVENING.  HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLY MODERATE TO LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE MAIN THREATS.

FARTHER NORTH....THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO DEVELOP EARLY
THIS EVENING ALONG A STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY WHICH EXTENDS FROM
GENOA TO NEAR GRAND ISLAND TO NORTH OF LEXINGTON.

WHILE BUDDING STORMS HAVE BEEN QUASHED IN MID DEVELOPMENT BY WARM
TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER ATMOSPHERE THUS FAR...IT IS POSSIBLE
THAT A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO COULD GET GOING BEFORE SUNSET NEAR THIS
BOUNDARY.  ANY STORM THAT DOES DEVELOP WOULD LIKELY BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL.

Local storm report, Jul 2, 9:40 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
940 PM CDT SUN JUL 02 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0925 PM    10 E MC COOL JCT          NE    .88 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   YORK

Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:11 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1011 PM CDT SUN JUL 02 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0958 PM    EXETER                    NE    .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/00   FILLMORE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	38 min
Jul 2, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	49 min
Jul 3, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	61 min
Jul 3, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	52 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.