Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2001, 10:19 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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 22, 2001, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076 WUUS53 KGID 230319 SVRGRI KSC123-230345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1019 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1013 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF BELOIT...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GLEN ELDER AT 1025 PM CDT BELOIT AT 1040 PM CDT ASHERVILLE AT 1045 PM CDT PEOPLE IN MITCHELL COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. $$ LAT...LON 3924 9846 3924 9796 3953 9793 3953 9844 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 22, 2:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 41 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 238 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001 WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY HUNG ALONG HIGHWAY 30 WITH INSTABILITY INCREASING ACROSS THE REGION. HIGH BASED DEVELOPMENT ALONG LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO ABOUT HEBRON EVIDENT ON SATELLITE AND OUTSIDE. BEST DEVELOPMENT WILL BE WEST INITIALLY WITH BETTER CONVERGENCE...BUT MOVEMENT OF STORMS WILL BE EAST OR EAST/NORTHEAST...AND INHIBITION WILL BE LOST WITH TIME. WEAK ENHANCEMENT WITH WAVE LIFTING EAST AS WELL. SPC ISSUING WATCH AT THIS MOMENT...AND WILL ADJUST OZF/ZFP PACKAGE FOR WATCH AREA. WILL ISSUE ZFP PRODUCT ABOUT 3 PM TO ACCOUNT FOR THE NEW WATCH. IN THE THURSDAY TO THURSDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME...UPPER LOW MOVEMENT APPEARS TOUCH SLOWER THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. IMPRESSIVE PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.5 TO 2+ INCHES FOCUSED ALONG THE BORDER AND ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SYNOPTIC SCALE LIFT SHOULD BE PLENTY TO WARRANT GOING ABOVE GUIDANCE POPS AND CONTINUING WITH HIGH POPS. FEEL SOUTHERN AREAS HAVE THE BEST SHOT...ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF LINGERING BOUNDARY. HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS WITH SLOW MOVEMENT. LINGERING SHOWERS LOOK REASONABLE EASTERN AREAS FRIDAY... WITH SOME SOME CLEARING WORKING IN FROM THE WEST LATE. TEMPERATURES HELD DOWN ACCORDINGLY. MAY SEE SOME LINGERING CLOUDS/FOG EARLY SATURDAY...BUT BEYOND THAT THINGS LOOK GOOD. .GID...NONE. MORITZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 722 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 685 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 685 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE SEVERE THREAT HAS DIMINISHED WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. ALTHOUGH SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE UNTIL AROUND 10 PM TONIGHT...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. 33
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 7:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ082>087-230110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 738 PM CDT WED AUG 22 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 685 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 655 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE SEVERE THREAT HAS DIMINISHED WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. ALTHOUGH SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE UNTIL AROUND 10 PM TONIGHT...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. 33
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 59 min |
| Aug 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 54 min |
| Aug 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.