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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2001, 9:42 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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
- Aug 21, 2001, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
874 WUUS53 KGID 220242 SVRGRI NEC065-220345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 942 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 931 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAVER CITY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF NORTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BEAVER CITY AT 950 PM CDT HOLLINGER AT 1005 PM CDT PEOPLE IN EASTERN FURNAS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THIS SEVERE STORM IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. $$ LAT...LON 4009 10002 3996 9985 4007 9963 4035 9967 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 Aug 21, 3:04 PM CDT, 6 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 3:04 PM CDT, 6 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 304 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001 THE HEAT IS ON ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWFA WITH DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW. WEAK TROF IN WESTERN NEBRASKA COULD FOCUS FOR SOME HIGH BASED CONVECTION...BUT CIN IS HOLDING FIRM. WARM ADVECTION REGIME NOT AS IMPRESSIVE AS LAST NIGHT. THOUGH THE LIKELIHOOD OF RAIN IS SLIM TONIGHT...IT DOESNT APPEAR TO BE NONE. BELIEVE AT LEAST SMALL POP STILL IN LINE. AVN AND ETA BOTH TRY TO SLIDE FRONT SOUTH WEDNESDAY. SOME LINGERING EARLY MORNING SHOWERS MAY HANG ON SOUTHEAST ZONES. WILL HOLD ON TO WARMER TEMPERATURES PER RECENT TRENDS DESPITE FRONT TRYING TO SLIDE SOUTH. THE MOST INTERESTING ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE WAVE PASSING LAS VEGAS NOW...AND WHICH IS FORECAST TO MOVE TO THE KS/CO/NE AREA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON NOON. SOME DIFFERENCES IN EXACT HANDLING OF WAVE MOVEMENT...BUT GOOD SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT WITH SYSTEM WILL DRAMATICALLY INCREASE RAIN CHANCES LATER THURSDAY. HPC QPF ON THE WET SIDE...AND AGREE ENOUGH WITH THAT TO HOIST SOME HEFTY POPS. LOTS OF CLOUDS TO KEEP TEMPERATURES DOWN SOME. NO EARTH SHATTERING CHANGES BEYOND THAT. .GID...NONE. MORITZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 9:28 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-220930- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 928 PM CDT TUE AUG 21 2001 SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE LIFTING OUT OF NORTHEAST COLORADO COMBINED WITH AN INTENSIFYING LOW LEVEL JET HAS ALLOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ALONG THE KANSAS NEBRASKA BORDER INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS. CONSIDERABLE INSTABILITY EXISTS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WHICH HOWEVER WAS TEMPERED BY THE EXISTENCE OF A MID LEVEL WARM LAYER WHICH HAD SUPPRESSED ANY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT EARLIER THIS EVENING. IF THIS LINE OF STORMS CAN CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE AND HOLD TOGETHER... THERE WOULD BE A RISK OF SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A CENTRAL CITY TO LEXINGTON LINE. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER STATEMENTS...AND POSSIBLE WATCHES OR WARNINGS. TEH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.