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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Hastings, NE

July 10, 2001Nuckolls County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2001, 1:20 AM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 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 10, 2001, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2001, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Nuckolls County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2266 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGID 100621
SVRGRI

NEC129-100715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
120 AM CDT TUE JUL 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NUCKOLLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 119 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NELSON...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  HASTINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NELSON AT 125 AM CDT
  NORA AT 140 AM CDT
  OAK AT 150 AM CDT
  RUSKIN AT 200 AM CDT

PEOPLE IN NUCKOLLS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STR[UCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS 
LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. 

$$

LAT...LON 4032 9823 4005 9824 4002 9786 4032 9786

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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 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 11 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:00 PM CDT, 11 hours 20 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
200 PM CDT MON JUL 9 2001

...PLACEMENT OF LLVL BOUNDARY FROM DAY TO DAY WL DRIVE WHOLE FCST...

12Z UAA SHOWS A CONTINUED SLOW WEAKENING OF UPPER HIGH. H5 TEMPS HAVE
DROPPED FROM ABOUT -4C HEADING INTO WEEKEND TO -8C THIS AM AM...W/ H7
TEMPS DOWN FROM +17 TO +12. HENCE...A MORE FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR
TSRAS. H85 FRONT DROPS DOWN HI PLAINS THEN EAST ACROSS NRN KS INTO
MO. AGAIN...GOOD LOCATION FOR MCS ACTIVITY...ESP OVER SRN CWA TNGT.

AT THE SFC...FRONT EXTENDS ACROSS NRN MO/NRN KS TO LO PRES IN SW KS.
DWPTS POOLING INTO 70S ON ENE FLOW N OF BOUNDARY. GOOD OUTFLOW FROM
DYING NEB MCS DROVE WELL SOUTH INTO CO/WRN KS & IS OOZING S THRU CWA
EARLY THIS AFTN. THIS OUTFLOW STALLING ATT & WOULD EXPECT 12Z ETA
PROG OF SETTING IT UP JUST S OF NEB/KS BORDER TO BE IN THE BALLPARK.

STILL SOME QUESTION AS TO WHAT ONGOING CONVECTION/OUTFLOW WILL DO TO
MCS FORMATION OUT WEST...BUT APPEARS VERY GOOD RECOVERY IS ONGOING ON
THE PERIPHERY OF CURRENT MCS "DEAD-SPACE". WILL FOLLOW ETA ON IDEA OF
FIRING NEXT MCS IN THIS AREA (NEB PNHDL/NE CO) & RIDING IT EAST ALONG
& NORTH OF SFC BOUNDARY. WL PUT BEST TSRA CHCS (50/60%)...EXTREME SRN
NEB INTO NC KS. MOST ACTIVITY WILL BE OVERNIGHT BUT SOME LATE DAY
STORMS ALSO POSSIBLE NEAR BOUNDARY GIVEN SLIGHTLY WEAKER CAP TODAY.

W/ EXPECTED MCS TRACK TNGT...SFC BOUNDARY SHOULD REMAIN SOUTH OF AREA
TOMR W/ SIMILAR WARM/HUMID CONDITIONS PERSISTING. APPEARS MCS CHC TO
BE PRETTY GOOD AGAIN TOMR NIGHT. WL HAVE TO WAIT TIL END OF TONIGHTS
ACTIVITY TO DETERMINE EXACT LOCATION. FOR NOW...WILL CONT 40 POPS.
ETA BRINGS DRIER SW FLOW INTO 1/2 OF CWA ON WED...WHICH WOULD BRING
TEMPS WELL OVER 100 AGAIN. WOULD ASSUME OUTFLOW FROM MCS/S WILL KEEP
THIS SOMEWHAT IN CHECK SO WL LEAVE ALONE THIS TIME AROUND.

WL GENERALLY LEAVE EXTENDED AS IS W/ PATTERN BASICALLY HOLDINGI INTO
NEXT WEEK. MORE OR LESS NORMAL TEMPS W/ A PERIODIC MCS ACTIVITY.

.GID...NONE.

GURNEY

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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.