Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2001, 8:51 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min. 3 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
- Sep 22, 2001, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 4 | Burr Oak, KS | |
| Sep 22, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Webber, KS | |
| Sep 22, 9:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mankato, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 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
- 2845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
046 WUUS53 KGID 230151 SVRGRI KSC089-230300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 851 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEBBER...OR ABOUT 37 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BURR OAK...WEBBER... LOVEWELL STATE PARK...MANKATO AND MONTROSE. PEOPLE IN JEWELL COUNTY 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. $$ GUYER LAT...LON 3999 9849 3973 9844 3957 9796 4000 9794 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 22, 1:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 1:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 150 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001 THIS PACKAGE APPEARS FAIRLY STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH THE MAIN CHALLENGES BEING PREFRONTAL CONVECTION THIS EVENING...AND TEMPERATURES MONDAY MORNING. 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACES THE COLD FRONT NEAR A HON-ONL-BBW-MCK- PUB LINE AND ADVANCING EASTWARD AT A GOOD RATE. 60+ DEW POINTS WERE POOLED JUST EAST OF THE BOUNDARY. SATELLITE AND SURFACE REPORTS HAD A MID CLOUD MASS EAST OF THE UPPER TROF. THE CLOUDS WERE PUTTING THE DAMPER ON HEATING AND WILL LIKELY INHIBIT CONVECTION TO SOME DEGREE. MODELS IN AGREEMENT CHASING THE FRONT THROUGH GID CWA THIS EVENING. SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES MAY CATCH SOME STORMS UNTIL ABOUT 03Z. SPC SLIGHT RISK LOOKS OK BUT LACK OF HEATING MAY KEEP STORMS FROM BECOMING SEVERE. FORECAST LOOKS FAIRLY SIMPLE AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE. INCREASING SURFACE WIND, CLEARING WITH HIGH PRESSURE SUBSIDENCE AND STRONG COLD ADVECTION WILL SET IN. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FEATURED ON ETA TIME HEIGHT IS A CONCERN. STRENGTH OF COLD ADVECTION AND RESIDUAL MOISTURE POINT TOWARD COLD AIR ST OR SC AT LEAST SUNDAY MORNING. EXPECT THE LOW CLOUDS TO HOLD TEMPERATURES BELOW FWC TOMORROW. FOCUS THEN SHIFTS TO THE CLEARING SKY, LIGHT WINDS AND COLD H85 TEMPERATURES THAT COULD RESULT IN THE FIRST FROST OF THE SEASON MONDAY MORNING. FAN LOOKS A BIT COOL, BUT COULD BE ON THE MARK IF LOW CLOUDS HOLD MOST OF SUNDAY. EXTENDED THROUGH WEDNESDAY LOOKS BENIGN WITH OMEGA BLOCK IN PLACE. AVN, MRF AND CANADIAN MODELS PUSH A STRONG UPPER LOW INTO THE BLOCK AND THEN ONTO THE PLAINS THURSDAY. UK AND ENSEMBLE DISAGREE ON THIS FEATURE. FEEL A CHANCE FOR TSTMS THU NIGHT INTO FRI IS THE BEST CHOICE BASED PRIMARILY ON THE 120 HR AVN FCST. .GID...NONE. SCHURR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 4:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-230200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 428 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING... A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE...ROUGHLY EXTENDING FROM FULLERTON TO GRAND ISLAND TO HOLDREGE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WILL GRADUALLY PROGRESS EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY...PEEKS OF AFTERNOON SUNSHINE AND PLENTIFUL MOISTURE HAS ALLOWED A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT TO TAKE SHAPE ACROSS THE AREA...ESPECIALLY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND THOSE AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AHEAD OF THE ADVANCING TROUGH...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 281 EARLY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH STORMS THIS EVENING WOULD BE LARGE HAIL...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION...AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE AS WELL...NAMELY IN THE VICINITY OF REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS EARLIER TODAY ACROSS FAR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION THIS EVENING SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP AND APPROACH YOUR AREA. GUYER
Local storm report, Sep 22, 8:36 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
836 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM 1 W SARONVILLE NE TORNADO
09/22/01 CLAY
0750 PM 2 N EDGAR NE TORNADO
09/22/01 CLAY
0810 PM 4 NE EDGAR NE TORNADO
HOUSE DESTROYED
09/22/01 CLAYLocal storm report, Sep 22, 8:43 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
843 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM 4 W SHICKLEY NE TORNADO
09/22/01 FILLMORE
0815 PM 1 E ONG NE TORNADO
09/22/01 CLAY
0830 PM MC COOL JCT NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
09/22/01 YORKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.