Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2001, 1:26 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 25, 2001, 1:26 AM CDT (06:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Phillipsburg, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 250627 SVRGRI KSC147-250700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 126 AM CDT WED JUL 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 124 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... KIRWIN AT 135 AM CDT AGRA AT 145 AM CDT PEOPLE IN PHILLIPS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. $$ KISNER LAT...LON 3999 9962 3959 9958 3959 9908 3997 9908 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 Jul 24, 6:23 PM CDT, 7 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 6:23 PM CDT, 7 hours 3 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 215 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001 ...RETRASMISSION... LKG CLOSELY AT POTENTIAL REPEAT OF MCS ACTIVITY AGAIN TNGT. MDLS/SPC ARE PEGGING THE ERN CO TO DOWNSTREAM ALONG THE NEB...KS BRDR AS THE PRIMARY TARGET AREA. SATELLITE...SFC OBS AND LIGHTNING DISPLAYS SHOW THE APPROACH OF THE WAVE...FALLING PRES OVR ERN CO AND SFC MSTR AXIS ALNG THE BRDR. SO WL GO ALNG...WITH UPGRADE TO LIKELY POPS FOR THE KS CWA. ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN IS FM THE BLACK HILLS INTO THE NRN NEB PANHANDLE WHERE THE MRNG UAA ANALYSIS INDS AN 850 MSTR AXIS...DVLPG DIFFLUENCE ALOFT...A SUNNY SKY FOR DESTABILIZATION WITH UPSLOPE SFC WND. EARLY AFTN ANALYSIS SHOWS THE EXPECTED LEE TROFFING WITH A CU FIELD DVLPG TO THE WEST OF UNR...AND NR THE ANALYZED MSTR AXIS. ETA PROGS THE MORE FAVORABLE Q-VECTOR CNVRGNC IN THIS AREA WITH EWD/SEWD CORFIDI VECTORS ALONG THE SD/NEB BRDR OVRNGT...BUT THICKNESS AND MSTR ORIENTATION MAY SPPRT MORE OF A SERN PROPAGATION OF ANY CLUSTER WHICH MAY DVLP UP YONDER. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT CHC POPS WL BE MAINTAINED FOR THE NEB AREA...WITH HIGHER NMBRS FOR THE NRN CWA. PATTERN PERSISTS SO MINIMAL CHANGES WL BE MADE FOR THE REST OF THE PACKAGE. WL ENTER A SMALL CHC OF RA IN THE ERN COUNTIES ON WED MRNG TO COVER ANY EXITING ACTIVITY...AND MAINTAIN THE RESTRICTION OF SMALL NEB POPS TO THE WRN ZONES FOR TSRA COMING OFF THE HIGH PLNS...BUT WL ADD A NGTTIME CHC TO KS AREA DUE TO UNCERTAIN PLACEMENT OF FRONT/BOUNDARY AS PER COORDINATION WITH TOPEKA. IN THE EFP...GENLY ZONAL FLOW OVR THE CNTRL PLNS SHOULD INCRS WITH CANADIAN/MRF PROGGED LOW XG SRN CAN AND FLAT RIDGE OVR THE SRN CONUS. SHRTWVS IN THE FLOW WL OBVIOUSLY BE DIFFICULT TO TIME SO MINOR ADJUSTMENTS WL RESULT IN RA MENTION EVERY OTHER DAY OR SO WITH NR...TO SLGTLY BLO SEASONAL TEMPS BY THE LATTER PDS. f.GID...NONE. 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.