Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2001, 12:32 AM CDT for Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 22, 2001, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2001, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:36 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
868 WUUS53 KGID 220532 SVRGRI NEC099-137-220615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1232 AM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA EASTERN PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1230 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF FUNK...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF HOLDREGE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FUNK AT 1240 AM CDT AXTELL AT 1250 AM CDT MINDEN AT 105 AM CDT PEOPLE IN WESTERN KEARNEY AND EASTERN PHELPS COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL OF ONE INCH IN DIAMETER OR MORE. $$ FAY LAT...LON 4066 9944 4037 9946 4036 9887 4061 9887 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 21, 2:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 2:30 PM CDT, 10 hours 2 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 230 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2001 ...FOCUS WILL BE ON PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT AND SATURDAY FOLLOWED BY COOLER TEMPS IN LATER PERIODS... MORNING SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS CONTINUED TO SHOW LOW MOVING OVER LAKE MICHIGAN WITH WEAK RIDGING OVER WESTERN CONUS. SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF NOTE INCLUDE H5/H7 SHORTWAVE OVER NORTHWEST COLORADO WITH POTENT TROUGH ENTERING PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. MOVEMENT OF THE WAVE UPSTREAM OF ROCKIES A CHALLENGE IN SATELLITE PIX WITH RELATIVELY DRY ENVIRONMENT. AT THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD AT 18Z WITH LEE TROUGH CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER ERN COLO. MOISTURE RETURN EVIDENT DURING MORNING HOURS IN WRN KS WITH DEWPOINTS IN LOW TO MID 60S. 12Z RUN OF ETA/AVN MODELS IN CLOSE AGREEMENT THROUGH NEXT 36 HRS. INITIAL PERIOD TEMPS AND FEATURES ALSO IN LINE WITH UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AND HAVE MESHED THESE OUTPUT FOR EARLY PERIODS OF FCST PACKAGE WITH WARMER ETA FAVORED IN LATER PERIODS. IN SPITE OF DRY NWP SOLUTIONS TONIGHT...SLIGHT POPS STILL WORTHY OF MENTION IN ERN CWFA WITH H85 LL JET PROGGED TO TIP 35KT WITH WAA UNDERWAY FROM 06-09Z. SHORTWAVE WILL HELP PROVIDE LIFT...BUT MOISTURE WILL BE RATHER LIMITED IN MID LEVELS. ANY TSRA TONIGHT WILL BE OF ELEVATED AND ISOLATED NATURE. 16Z SWODY1 SCALED BACK TO GENERAL CATEGORY BASED ON WEAK WAA. BY SAT EVE POST-FRONTAL POPS EXPECTED TO BE MOST FAVORABLE IN SE ZONES WITH BETTER MOISTURE IN PLACE AFTER 00Z. WITH GOOD RUN TO RUN CONTINUITY ESTABLISHED...WILL INCREASE POPS TO LIKELY MENTION...BUT WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE IN ERN ZONES FOR SUN AM...DESPITE POOR CONFIDENCE IN TIMING OF EXITING SYSTEM. TEMPS BEGIN TO TAKE DIVE SUNDAY IN NRLY FLOW AS AIRMASS DRIES OUT THROUGH DAY. HOWEVER...NOT BUYING IN TO NEAR-FREEZE FAN GUIDANCE SUN NIGHT...BUT WILL TRIM BACK A BIT FROM GOING FCST. OTHERWISE...REST OF EXTENDED PERIOD LOOKS DRY AND COOL WITH MODERATING TEMPS TOWARD END OF WEEK. THANKS FOR COORDINATION TOP. .GID...NONE. 33
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Sep 22, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 5:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 53 min |
| Sep 22, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 44 min |
| Sep 22, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 46 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.