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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Hastings, NE

July 3, 2000Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 10:33 PM CDT for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adams County, NE, Hall County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 234 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 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
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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:47 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 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, 3 hours 9 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
Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:45 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
945 PM CDT MON JUL 03 2000

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

0940 PM    5 N HOLDREGE              NE    60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/00   PHELPS
Local storm report, Jul 3, 10:24 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1024 PM CDT MON JUL 03 2000

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

0956 PM    2 N HOLDREGE              NE    .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/00   PHELPS

1005 PM    HOLDREGE                  NE    FLOOD
07/03/00   PHELPS                          WATER 2 FEET DEEP IN
                                           STREET`S

1015 PM    2 W AXTELL                NE    65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/00   KEARNEY

1015 PM    2 W AXTELL                NE    65 MPH TSTM GUST
07/03/00   PHELPS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper45 min
Jul 3, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper, Phelps64 min
Jul 3, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney51 min
Jul 3, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDYork59 min
Jul 3, 11:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDYork4 hr
Jul 4, 3:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDFranklin3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.