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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2001, 2:41 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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
- Aug 30, 2001, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Randall, KS | |
| Aug 30, 3:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Beloit, 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 860 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 30, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 10:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1015 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001 SHRAS/TSRAS LINGERING IN SE CWA W/ DECENT CLOUD COVER OVER MUCH OF SE 2/3RD. UPDATED TO BREAK OFF SE COUNTIES FOR TSRAS DURING THE REST OF MORNING. W/ TSRA INDUCED COLD POOL IN MIDDLE OF CWA... ALSO LOWERED HIGHS TODAY JUST A BIT. ACTUAL DEGREE OF WARMING FROM I80 TO KS BORDER WILL BE HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON DEGREE OF CLD EROSION THIS AFTERNOON. FOR NOW...JUST LOWERED TO NEAR 80 ASSUMING SOME AFTN SUNSHINE. .GID...NONE. GURNEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 11:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-302100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1115 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY OR TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING BRIEF...HEAVY DOWNPOURS TO AREAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6 INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY DIE OFF DURING THE REST OF THE DAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BORDER THIS EVENING...AND PERSIST INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AGAIN...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS. GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 50 min |
| Aug 30, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 49 min |
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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.