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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2001, 5:33 PM CDT for Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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
- May 16, 2001, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 162234 SVRGRI NEC169-162300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 533 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN THAYER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF ALEXANDRIA...OR ABOUT 41 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHEASTERN THAYER COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN THAYER COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE VAND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ CF/SC 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 May 16, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 ...TIMING/PLACING TSRA CHCS BIG CHALLENGE AS ACTIVE PAC FLOW CONTS... UAA THIS AM 100-125KT H3 JET FROM ID TO MN. WE COME UNDER RRQ OF THIS JET TNGT-THU. IN THE H5-H7 LAYER...WARM DOME CURRENTLY POISED OVER & S OF CWA. HWVR...COOLER TEMPS ADVTG IN FROM NRN CO & WY. MEANWHILE... H85 FRONT STALLED NEAR NEB/KS BORDER W/ 8-10 DEG DWPTS POOLED ON IT. AT THE SFC...EARLY AFTN CHART HAD STALLED BOUNDARY NEAR NEB/KS BORDER W/ 70 DWPTS POOLING ALONG & S OF IT. INTERESTING FEATURE...BASICALLY A COOL FRONT ALONG LEADING EDGE OF STRONG WESTERLIES HAS PUSHED INTO S CO & NW KS...W/ NORTHEAST EXTENT OF THIS INTO WRN/NRN CWA. APPEARS THIS WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR LATE AFTN/EVE TSRAS. CAP WL BREAK TODAY. IN FACT IT ALREADY HAS IN WRN KS. TSRAS SHOULD FIRE IN THIS AREA IN A FEW HRS & PROBABLY INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS BOUNDARY SHIFTS SE INTO OTHER WASHED OUT FRONT & RICHER DWPTS FROM NEB/KS BORDER SOUTH. OTHERWISE...MAIN COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NRN WY/WRN ND W/ THE USUAL PRE-FRONTAL TROF FROM WRN SD INTO THE NEB PNDHL. THESE FEATURES MAY STILL FOCUS SOME TSRAS...BUT IT APPEARS MOISTURE WL REMAIN LARGELY CUTOFF...ONCE TSRAS FIRE ON SRN BOUNDARIES. WL HIT SRN AREAS HARDEST W/ ONLY A 20/30% IN THE NORTH. INTO THU...COLD AIR CONTS TO SLIP INTO CWA BEHIND FRONT...WHICH WILL CLEAR KS BY 00Z. WV IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER TROF EXTENDING FROM WRN US INTO THE PACIFIC. THIS SUPPORTS MDLS IDEA OF POSTFRONTAL PCPN TO AT LEAST SRN PARTS OF CWA...AS ENERGY OVERRIDES COOL LLVL AIR. AGAIN... WL WORD SRN ZONES W/ BETTER CHCS. WE ALSO LOSE ANOTHER 10 DEGS OFF MX TEMPS BEHIND THIS FRONT. PAST THAT...MDLS CONT TO BE ALL OVER THE PLACE W/ STRENGTH/TIMING OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS...BUT GENERALLY SUGGEST DRY WX THRU FRI...W/ A RETURN OF TSRA CHCS LATE FRI NIGHT INTO SATURDAY...AND POSSIBLY AGAIN ON SUN AS STRONG COLD FRONT...PROBABLY THE LAST IN THE SERIES...DIVES THRU THE PLAINS. WL BASICALLY LEAVE EXTENDED ALONG...XCPT TWEAKING MON A BIT LOWER & TREND TEMPS WARMER TUE INTO WED . .GID...NONE. GURNEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-170000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 240 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... A WEAK COLD FRONT...LOCATED FROM NEAR COLUMBUS SOUTHWEST TO HASTINGS AND HILL CITY...WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN NEBRASKA DURING THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FIRE ALONG THIS BOUNDARY BY 3 OR 4 PM. THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO FORM ALONG A STALLED FRONT NEAR THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BORDER. IN FACT...BY EARLY THIS EVENING...THESE TWO FRONTS WILL INTERACT...AND THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL INCREASE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. ALTHOUGH CONDITIONS ARE NOT IDEAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER...THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME VERY UNSTABLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BORDER. THUS...A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST FROM SOUTH OF HASTINGS AND YORK...SOUTH INTO NORTH (CENTRAL KANSAS. IN ADDITION...ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL ENTER THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS FEATURE. THESE WILL LIKELY REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. GURNEY
Local storm report, May 16, 5:08 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
508 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0504 PM 3 S MILLIGAN NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/16/01 FILLMORESpecial weather statement, May 16, 5:22 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-170100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 522 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN NEBRASKA...AND PARTS OF NORTHERN KANSAS. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG A BOUNDARY...WHICH WILL STRETCH FROM NEAR GENEVA NEBRASKA...TO RED CLOUD...AND THEN TO SMITH CENTER AND PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS. FOR LOCATIONS ANYWHERE SOUTH OF THIS LINE...THERE EXISTS AT LEAST SOME CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER. AN ISOLATED...BUT BRIEF TORNADO...IS POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS BEFORE SUNSET. TO THE NORTH...THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...BUT A SLIGHTLY LESS FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT SHOULD PRECLUDE THE SEVERE POTENTIAL. MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 47 min |
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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.