Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 6:23 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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
- Jul 3, 2000, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
027 WUUS53 KGID 032324 SVRGRI NEC129-181-040015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 623 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 619 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COWLES...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAWRENCE AT 640 PM CDT BLADEN AT 650 PM CDT BLUE HILL AT 650 PM CDT PEOPLE IN WESTERN NUCKOLLS AND WEBSTER COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. $$ FAY LAT...LON 4005 9867 4002 9817 4033 9806 4033 9868 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, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 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
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, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.