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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Hastings, NE

May 16, 2001Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2001, 10:39 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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: May 16, 2001, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2001, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Jewell County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 10:58 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 57 E	Webber, KS

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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 770 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 May 16, 2:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 39 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

Local storm report, May 16, 5:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 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   FILLMORE

Special weather statement, May 16, 5:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 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

Local storm report, May 16, 7:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
747 PM CDT WED MAY 16 2001

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

0643 PM    2 N REPUBLICAN CITY       NE    .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   HARLAN

0650 PM    6 NW NAPONEE              NE    .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/01   FRANKLIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	41 min
May 16, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	40 min
May 16, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.