Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Hastings, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Kearney, NE | |
| Jul 3, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 M | Kearney 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.
- 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
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 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 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 49 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.