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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Hastings, NE

October 9, 2001Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Oct 9, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 9, 9:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Webster, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 9, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 7.0

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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 Oct 9, 2:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 2:25 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
225 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2001

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT MAIN FOCUS TODAY.

18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED LOW PRESSURE OVER SW NEBR WITH DRY LINE
EXTENDING S ACROSS WRN KANSAS AND WARM FRONT STRETCHING EAST ACROSS
SRN NEBR.  COLD FRONT SEPARATING PANHANDLE FROM THE REST OF THE
STATE.  PLENTY OF SFC MOISTURE IN PLACE WITH DEW POINTS AROUND 60.
SATELLITE/PROFILERS SHOW POTENT WAVE CROSSING THE ROCKIES AND
COUPLED JET STRUCTURE SET UP OVER PLAINS. SO PLENTY OF LIFT.

CAPES UP TO 2000 J/KG ON 18Z LAPS AND EVEN HIGHER ON SPC HOURLY MESO
ANALYSIS.  500 MB TEMPS OF -14C ACROSS THE AREA.  VIL O DAY FIGURES
TO BE AROUND 50 OFF 18Z SOUNDINGS.  SHEARWISE...FLOW IS OBVIOUSLY
VERY STRONG WITH SOME DIRECTIONAL SHEAR IN LOWEST LEVELS YIELDING
HIGH VALUES OF BRN AND EHI ON SPC MESO PLOTS.  HOWEVER AS
AFTN/EVENING PROGRESSES...WINDS FAIRLY UNIDIRECTIONAL WITH HEIGHT
ALTHOUGH UNDULATIONS LIKELY NEAR FRONT AS SFC LOW RIDES ALONG IT.
THEREFORE...TORNADO THREAT FIGURES TO BE REAL IN ADDITION TO THE
HAIL THREAT FROM COLD AIR ALOFT.  EVENTUALLY THIS SHOULD TURN INTO A
LINE EVENT ALONG THE COLD FRONT.  18Z SOUNDINGS DO SUPPORT THREAT OF
WIND DAMAGE AS WELL.

SO...WILL MENTION SVR IN ZFP THIS EVENING. PLENTY OF SUBSIDENCE LATE
TONIGHT AND WED BEHIND FRONT SO NW WINDS SHOULD SUSTAIN AT LEAST
BREEZY CRITERIA.  WOULD EXPECT A DECREASE IN CLOUDS OVERNIGHT WITH
SUBSIDENCE THEN SOME REFORMING IN CAA WED.  HAD TO UP TEMPS A NOTCH
TONIGHT DUE TO STRONG HEATING THIS AFTERNOON AND EXPECTED MIXING
OVERNIGHT.  HAVE INCREASED DIURNAL RANGE A BIT WED/WED NGT AND THU
WITH GENERALLY DRY AIR IN PLACE.

NOT MUCH CHANGE TO FORECAST BEYOND THURSDAY AS CHANCE OF RAIN STILL
LOOKS ON TRACK FRIDAY.  APPEARS A SLIGHT WARMUP MAY RETURN BY
TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK AS UPPER RIDGING TRIES TO NUDGE TROUGH EAST.

.GID...NONE.

DROZD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 9, 7:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
707 PM CDT TUE OCT 09 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0553 PM    2 E POLK                  NE    TORNADO
10/09/01   POLK                            REPORTED BY SHERIFFS
                                           OFFICE

0555 PM    BURR OAK                  KS    1 INCH HAIL
10/09/01   JEWELL                          REPORTED BY COOP OBSERVER

GUYER

Local storm report, Oct 9, 7:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
740 PM CDT TUE OCT 09 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0510 PM    CHAPMAN                   NE    TORNADO
10/09/01   MERRICK                         BLDGS/ PIVOTS DESTROYED

0520 PM    10 N CENTRAL CITY         NE    TORNADO
10/09/01   MERRICK                         2 HOUSES DESTROYED

0630 PM    SILVER CREEK              NE    TORNADO
10/09/01   MERRICK                         CARS/ HOUSES DAMAGED

Special weather statement, Oct 9, 7:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

KSZ007-019-NEZ041-048-049-063-064-076-077-086-087-100200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
747 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2001

...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA AREAS EAST OF HIGHWAY 281...
...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES IN NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 9 PM WHERE
TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE.

IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
NANCE...MERRICK...POLK...HAMILTON...YORK...CLAY...FILLMORE...
NUCKOLLS...AND THAYER.

GUYER

Local storm report, Oct 9, 8:15 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
815 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0802       MINDEN                    NE    .75 INCH HAIL
10/09/01   KEARNEY

Local storm report, Oct 9, 8:51 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	38 min
Oct 9, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	54 min
Oct 9, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	30 min
Oct 9, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	57 min
Oct 9, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	48 min
Oct 9, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	61 min
Oct 9, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.