Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:29 PM CDT for Fillmore County, York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min. 6 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
- Jun 13, 2001, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fillmore County, NE, York County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:38 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Geneva, NE | |
| Jun 13, 6:38 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Fairmont, NE | |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mc Cool Jct, NE | |
| Jun 13, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Geneva, NE | |
| Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Burress, NE | |
| Jun 13, 7:06 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Exeter, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1987 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
888 WUUS53 KGID 132329 SVRGRI NEC059-185-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 629 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN YORK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 623 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF FAIRMONT...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WACO AT 700 PM CDT PEOPLE IN EASTERN YORK AND FILLMORE COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. $$ 09 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 Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 340 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 FRONT APPEARS TO HAVE FINALLY STALLED ACROSS CENTRAL CWFA... BASICALLY ALONG A LINE FROM PALMER...TO KGRI...JUNIATA...AND THEN TO BLOOMINGTON. THE CONCERN IS CONVECTION TONIGHT...WHERE AND WHEN. FRONT WILL HOLD STEADY TONIGHT...AND BE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. BELIEVE AREAS JUST TO NORTHEAST OF CWFA MAY SEE THINGS FIRE FIRST. BACK BUILDING POSSIBLE...WITH CAPPING LIMITING SOUTHERN CWFA DEVELOP. ONCE SURFACE LOW STARTS CHURNING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS AREA IN RESPONSE TO UPPER WAVE MOVING...AND LOW LEVEL STRONG LOW LEVEL JET KICKS IN...MUCH OF CWFA WILL ERUPT INTO WIDESPREAD STORMS FOR THE OVERNIGHT. SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE...BUT TORNADO THREAT SEEMS TO BE DURING THE EVENING HOURS...IF STORMS GET GOING THEN. RECENT HOT AND DRY TREND PRECLUDES ANY ISSUANCE OF FFA FOR REGION. LATEST MESOETA NOW MOVES UPPER LOW JUST A TOUCH FURTHER NORTH ON THURSDAY...BUT AT ABOUT THE SAME SPEED. SOUTHERN CWFA WILL BE IN DRY SLOT...AND COULD WARM NICELY WITH STRONG WEST FLOW. WILL DROP OZF TEMPS JUST A BIT BUT AT LEAST AT GUIDANCE LEVELS THERE. NORTHERN AREAS IN CLOUDS BEFORE BREAKING OUT...AND COOLER TEMPERATURE ZONE. 60S LIKELY NORTHWEST ZONES. STILL A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS/STORMS AND BELIEVE SEVERE THREAT WILL BE JUST TO OUR NORTHEAST. WILL BE MAKING MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO OZF POPS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. WARM...WEST FLOW FRIDAY SHOULD LEAD TO MILD TEMPERATURES UNDER SUNSHINE. .GID...NONE. MORITZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-140100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CNTRL NE/NORTH CNTRL KS - UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 455 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS STILL LIKELY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THE AREA REMAINS UNDER A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT TWO DIFFERENT WEATHER SYSTEMS THAT MAY GIVE US SEVERE WEATHER. THE FIRST AREA LOOKS HAVE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. THIS AREA HAS DEW POINTS NEAR 70 DEGREES AND TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S. WITH SUNSET A FEW MORE HOURS AWAY...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR IN THIS AREA. THE PRIMARY THREAT THIS EVENING WILL BE PRIMARILY LARGE HAIL...BUT TORNADOS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THE NEXT AREA IS ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT HAS BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE REGION. LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THE FRONT WAS FROM NEAR FULLERTON TO GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA TO PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS GAINING STRENGTH IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND WILL SLOWLY WORK ITS WAY INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. AS IT DOES...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT. AGAIN THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL...BUT STRONG WINDS AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO MAY STILL OCCUR. THE BEST TIME FOR THE SEVERE WEATHER IN THIS AREA WILL BE FROM 8 PM UNTIL 2 AM. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS ARE URGED TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACTIVATE IF STORMS DEVELOP NEAR YOUR AREA. KISNER
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-140100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CNTRL NE/NORTH CNTRL KS - UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE CORRECTION TO 2ND PARA 455 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS STILL LIKELY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THE AREA REMAINS UNDER A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT. BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT TWO DIFFERENT WEATHER SYSTEMS THAT MAY GIVE US SEVERE WEATHER. THE FIRST AREA LOOKS TO HAVE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. THIS AREA HAS DEW POINTS NEAR 70 DEGREES AND TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S. WITH SUNSET A FEW MORE HOURS AWAY...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR IN THIS AREA. THE PRIMARY THREAT THIS EVENING WILL BE PRIMARILY LARGE HAIL...BUT TORNADOS CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THE NEXT AREA IS ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT HAS BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS THE REGION. LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THE FRONT WAS FROM NEAR FULLERTON TO GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA TO PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS GAINING STRENGTH IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND WILL SLOWLY WORK ITS WAY INTO THE REGION TONIGHT. AS IT DOES...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT. AGAIN THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL...BUT STRONG WINDS AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO MAY STILL OCCUR. THE BEST TIME FOR THE SEVERE WEATHER IN THIS AREA WILL BE FROM 8 PM UNTIL 2 AM. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS ARE URGED TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACTIVATE IF STORMS DEVELOP NEAR YOUR AREA. KISNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 36 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.