Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2001, 4:14 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 7, 2001, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 4:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Glen Elder, 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, 9.2 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
- 1545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
533 WUUS53 KGID 072115 SVRGRI KSC089-123-072200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 414 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLEN ELDER...OR ABOUT 32 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SCOTTSVILLE AT 420 PM CDT IONIA AT 425 PM CDT JEWELL AT 430 PM CDT MANKATO AT 435 PM CDT MONTROSE AT 440 PM CDT PEOPLE IN JEWELL AND NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ LAT...LON 3935 9845 3936 9794 4001 9793 3996 9849 GURNEY 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 Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 TRICKY TEMPS AND POPS... SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH COLORADO UPPER LOW ENTERED THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF OUR CWA BY AROUND 9 AM THIS MORNING. LOW CLOUDS AND STRATUS MOVING IN FROM THE NNW UNDER THIS UPPER ACTION...WITH A RAPIDLY APPROACHING SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND SECONDARY SURFACE COLD FRONT...LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN TO CENTRAL MT THIS MORNING...ALSO MOVING THIS WAY FROM THE NNW. CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON...FIRST FROM THE SOUTH WITH THE UPPER PUSH FROM WESTERN KANSAS AND EASTERN COLORADO...THEN LATER TONIGHT AND OVERNIGHT FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AS THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND COLD FRONT MOVE SOUTH THROUGH CWA LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY AM. THIS AFTERNOON...UPPER LOW AND ENERGY SWINGING INTO WESTERN KA WILL LIKELY SLOW DOWN SOUTHERN MOVEMENT OF SFC FRONT THAT MOVED THROUGH THIS MORNING AND MAY EVEN BACK IT UP A TAD...ALLOWING FOR CHANCE OF ENHANCED CONVECTION OVER OUR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES...THAYER IN NE AND JEWEL...MITCHELL AND OSBORNE COUNTIES IN KA. POSSIBILITY FOR A COUPLE OF STORMS APPROACHING SEVERE FOR WIND AND HAIL...ALTHOUGH SUPERCELL STRUCTURE IS UNLIKELY HERE...AND SO CHANCE FOR TORNADOES WILL BE LOW. THINK THAT AREA COULD GET SOME STORM TRAINING FOR A SHORT PERIOD...AND THUS MOSTLY HEAVY RAIN...TIL LINE PUSHES EAST AND OUT OF CWA. TONIGHT AND TOMORROW...MINUS 10 TO 15 DEGREE H5 COLD POOL ADVECTING INTO REGION HAS KEPT LASPE RATES RELATIVELY HIGH EVEN AS CAA NEAR SFC HAS BEEN ONGOING. AND SAME THING WILL LIKELY HAPPEN OVERNIGHT AND TOMORROW AS A MINUS 20 COLD POOL LURKS TO THE NW...WITH THE SECONDARY SHORTWAVE AND SFC FRONT THAT WILL ARRIVE LATER TONIGHT...SO THE BOTTOM LINE IS...PUTTING POPS BACK IN FOR TONIGHT THROUGH SAT NIGHT. EVEN TONIGHT...RAIN/SHOWER/DRIZZLE POTENTIAL WILL BE AIDED BY THE LFQ OF UPPER JET MOVING INTO A SLIGHTLY FAVORABLE POSITION OVERNIGHT. NOT GOING WHOLE HOG ON POPS TONIGHT THOUGH...KEEPING 30S OVER NORTHERN TWO THIRDS AND AND 40 SOUTH. TOMORROW...WILL PUT IN 50 CHANCE ACROSS THE BOARD AS STRONGEST PART OF THE NW UPPER WAVE MOVES IN BEHIND EXITING SFC FRONT WITH UPPER TROUGH FORECAST TO DIG QUITE A BIT SATURDAY AND AND AT THE SAME TIME GO POSITIVELY TILTED THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY AND EVE...AND MID LEVEL LASPE RATES SHOULD BE RUNNING IN THE 7 TO 8 DEG AREA...SO KEEPING EVEN 30 POPS IN FOR SAT NIGHT. OVERNIGHT TOMORROW HOWEVER...TROUGH AXIS WILL MOVE EAST OF THE CWA... SHIFTING BEST UPPER SUPPORT WITH IT BY 12Z SUNDAY. STABILITY BUILDING THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THE SFC UP WILL END PRECIP CHANCES...AND WITH LARGE SCALE SUBSIDENCE AND CLEARING SKIES...USHER IN THE COOLEST TEMPS OF THE SUMMER WITH LOW TEMPS SOMEWHERE IN THE 40S. GUIDANCE FOR BOTH HIGHS AND LOWS OVER THE NEXT 36 HRS IS ALL OVER THE PLACE...SO TAKING MIDDLE OF ROAD BETWEEN MODELS...WITH TRENDS FROM ETA. EXTENDED STILL LOOKS DRY WITH TEMPS STAYING LARGELY IN THE 70S AS UPPER FLOW REMAINS ZONAL THROUGHOUT THROUGH WED. MRF HAS A RATHER FAST MOVING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE REGION THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF QPF. EUROPEAN AND ENSEMBLES SUPPORT THIS FEATURE TO A CERTAIN DEGREE. TIMING IF AND WHEN IT ARRIVES MAY BE A LITTLE SUSPECT...SO STAYING WITH PRECIP THURS AND ADDING CHANCE TO FRIDAY. .GID...NONE. JB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 11:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-072100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1110 AM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS KANSAS AND NEBRASKA...WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST OF THE REGION BY EARLY AFTERNOON. WITH THE FRONT SLIDING SOUTH...THE MAIN AREA FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL ALSO SHIFT SOUTH. THERE WILL STILL BE SOME CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR A SMALL PART OF THE AREA...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS LATER TODAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS MAY DEVELOP THROUGH EARLY EVENING...ACROSS A SMALL SECTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE PRIMARY RISK AREA IS SOUTHEAST OF A HEBRON NEBRASKA...TO STOCKTON KANSAS LINE. ISOLATED STRONG WINDS OR PENNY SIZE HAIL MAY OCCUR FROM THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED. MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 55 min |
| Sep 7, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 53 min |
| Sep 7, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 47 min |
| Sep 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 52 min |
| Sep 7, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 61 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.