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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Hastings, NE

July 3, 2000Gosper County, Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 9:11 PM CDT for Gosper County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 3 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, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2000, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gosper County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:13 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
Jul 3, 9:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Holdrege, NE
Jul 3, 9:56 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Holdrege, NE
Jul 3, 10:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57 E	Funk, 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

700 
WUUS53 KGID 040211
SVRGRI
NEC073-137-040315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  EASTERN GOSPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 908 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF SMITHFIELD...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  WEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BERTRAND AT 920 PM CDT
  LOOMIS AT 930 PM CDT
  ATLANTA AT 935 PM CDT
  HOLDREGE AT 945 PM CDT
  FUNK AT 1000 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN PHELPS AND EASTERN GOSPER COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE
LIKELY.

$$

FAY


LAT...LON 4068 9979 4036 9980 4036 9920 4064 9919

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, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 6 hours 24 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

Local storm report, Jul 3, 7:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
724 PM CDT MON JUL 03 2000

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

0528 PM    HOLDREGE                  NE    WIND DAMAGE
07/03/00   PHELPS                          TREE DOWNED

0540 PM    KEARNEY                   NE    60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/00   BUFFALO                         FIREWORKS STANDS BLOWN
                                           OVER

0550 PM    2 S RIVERDALE             NE    WIND DAMAGE
07/03/00   BUFFALO                         SHED BLOWN OVER
                                           WINDOW BLOWN IN
                                           SIDING TORN OFF HOUSE

0555 PM    KEARNEY ARPT              NE    69 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/00   BUFFALO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	45 min
Jul 3, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	51 min
Jul 3, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	42 min
Jul 3, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	59 min
Jul 3, 11:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	York	4 hr
Jul 4, 3:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Franklin	3 hr

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.