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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Hastings, NE

July 3, 2000Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 350 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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, 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.

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, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo61 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.