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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Hastings, NE

July 3, 2000Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 5:29 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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
Jul 3, 2000, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 3, 5:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EKearney, NE
Jul 3, 5:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60 MKearney Arpt, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 307 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
307 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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.

026 
WUUS53 KGID 032230
SVRGRI
NEC019-032330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
529 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEARNEY...MOVING NORTH AT
  10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KEARNEY AT 545 PM CDT
  RIVERDALE AT 625 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN CENTRAL BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS.

$$

FAY


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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 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
247 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

CURRENT SWODY1...SWOMCD...AND QPFERD DESCRIBE CURRENT CONVECTIVE
AND HEAVY RAIN SITUATION FOR FIRST PERIOD QUITE WELL AND WILL NOT
BELABOR THE POINT. TSRA ALREADY FIRING JUST WEST OF FA NEAR KMCK
ALONG BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SWRN NEBR EWD ALONG KS/NEBR STATELINE
AND IN VICINITY OF MCV MOVING ACRS WRN KS. MCS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY
MOVE EWD ACRS CENTRAL PLAINS OVERNIGHT WITH GOOD UPPER SUPPORT PER
12Z H7/H5 ANALYSIS AND RECENT WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. CORFIDI VECTORS
INDICATE SLOW MOVEMENT AND BACKBUILDING POTENTIAL...BUT WILL HOLD OFF
ON FLASH FLOOD WATCH ATTM AS BULK OF AREA STILL UNDER DROUGHT
CONDITIONS.

AFTERWARDS VERY WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE. GENERAL SWLY
UPPER FLOW WITH FLAT RIDGE TO THE SOUTH. MODELS PROGGING BUILDING
HEIGHTS AND MID LEVEL TEMPS. HOWEVER...DO NOT LIKE MODELS LACK OF
HANDLING OF CONVECTIVE BOUNDARIES AND STILL LEERY WITH SWLY UPPER
FLOW. 12Z 30KM MM5 SUGGESTING DEVELOPMENT ALONG ESTABLISHED  LEE SFC
TROF. SWODY2 SUPPORTS THIS SCENARIO AS WELL. THUS WILL MAINTAIN CHC
POPS.

EXTENDED...AGAIN AM STILL LEERY OF DRY FCST WITH THIS UPPER PATTERN
AND WELL ESTABLISHED LEE TROF. WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHC NOCTURNAL
TSRA NWRN HALF OF FA. OTHERWISE STATUS QUO TEMPS.

.GID...NONE.

BARRITT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 11:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-032100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1145 AM CDT MON JUL 3 2000

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

THE INGREDIENTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY
BE IN PLACE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

FOR THIS AFTERNOON...A BOUNDARY IS LOCATED ALONG THE KANSAS AND
NEBRASKA STATE LINE.  ALSO...A DISTURBANCE FROM OVERNIGHT
THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN WEST-CENTRAL KANSAS.  THIS MAY HELP TO
FIRE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS.

FOR LATER IN THE DAY...AN UPPER LEVEL WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING
INTO THE REGION FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES.  THIS SYSTEM IS ALREADY
TRIGGERING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS WITH MORE
STORMS LIKELY IN WESTERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN KANSAS.  THESE STORMS
WILL SLOWLY WORK THEIR WAY EASTWARD...MAINLY AFTER 6 PM.

IF THUNDERSTORMS DO DEVELOP TODAY...THEY SHOULD GROW RAPIDLY...
LEADING TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS.  ALTHOUGH THE
WIND PROFILE WILL NOT BE IDEAL FOR TORNADOES...THE EXTREME
INSTABILITY MAY BE SUFFICIENT FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO.  AS THE
EVENING PROGRESSES AND THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BECOMES MORE
ORGANIZED...THERE WILL BE A HIGHER LIKELIHOOD OF DAMAGING STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS FROM SQUALL LINES.

DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE IN THE AIR...SOME AREAS MAINLY
NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND MAY ALSO SEE VERY HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT...IN
EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN A SHORT TIME.  AREAS PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING
COULD EXPERIENCE WATER PROBLEMS TONIGHT.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS RECOMMENDS EMERGENCY
MANAGERS AND SPOTTER ORGANIZATIONS PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE
FORECASTS TODAY...AND BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.

KISNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, York38 min
Jul 2, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore46 min
Jul 2, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls49 min
Jul 3, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster52 min

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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.