Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2001, 5:42 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 14, 2001, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nuckolls County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Oak, NE |
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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 142243 SVRGRI NEC129-142315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 542 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 535 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUSKIN...OR ABOUT 41 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OAK AT 550 PM CDT PEOPLE IN EASTERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ 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 Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 245 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 EVENING CONVECTION MAIN NEAR TERM CONCERN. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY FIRING AT THE NOSE OF THE LOW LEVEL THETA E AXIS. LAPS DATA SUGGESTS A SFC BNDRY SOUTH OF CWFA. WHILE CONVECTION APPEARS ELEVATED AT THIS TIME...IF BNDRY SURGES NORTHWARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SURFACE BASED TSTMS COULD APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH RUC40 CAPES 1000 TO 1500 J/KG IN SE CWFA. WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS ARE CONDUCIVE TO LARGE HAIL. CONVECTION MAY ALSO GET A BOOST FROM SHORT WAVE TROUGH COMING OUT OF THE ROCKIES...ALTHOUGH MAY NOT IMPACT UNTIL BEST LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HAS SHIFTED EAST OF THE AREA...AFTER MID EVENING. A COLD FRONT STRETCHES ACROSS NW NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. SOME CONVERGENCE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN CWFA LATER THIS EVENING WHICH MAY ALSO BE AIDED BY MID LEVEL TROUGH. THE RUC LOOKS A LITTLE HIGH WITH DEW POINT POOLING AND CAPES TOWARD MIDNIGHT...BUT A SHOWER OR STORM IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION ACROSS NORTHERN NEBR...AS EVIDENCED ON VISIBLE SATELLITE. ALSO IN PROXIMITY TO RIGHT REAR QUAD JET DIVERGENCE. WILL INSERT A SMALL POP ACROSS THE FAR N CWFA. ATTENTION SHIFTS TO TEMPERATURES AS SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR FILTERS INTO THE REGION SUNDAY BEHIND FRONT...THEN MUCH COOLER AIR SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AS UPPER LOW ROTATES OUT OF CANADA AND ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. IN GENERAL HAVE GONE WITH THE COOLER MAV GUIDANCE AROSS THE BOARD...MEANING A SLIGHT DROP IN FCST TEMPS ACROSS THE BOARD. WHILE NCEP HAS ITS DOUBTS ABOUT THE ETAS 12Z RUN...ITS PRECIPITATION GENERATION IS CONSISTENT WITH THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL COLD ADVECTION ADVERTISED. 295K ISENT LIFT OVER THIS COLD AIR SUPPORTS AN AREA OF RAIN JUST NORTH OF THE 850 MB FRONT IN THE SW CWFA...WITH A LITTLE SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED IN ALONG THE NORTHEAST FRINGE. AVN IS FARTHER SOUTH WITH THE LIFT BUT SLOW WITH SATURATION AND PRECIP. THEREFORE LOW POPS NECESSARY FOR PARTS OF CWFA SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING. TEMPS FORECAST IN 25 TO 30 RANGE TUESDAY MORNING...BUT STILL 2 TO 3 WEEKS BEFORE AVERAGE DATE OF LAST FREEZE. MAY NEED TO ISSUE AN SPS SUNDAY IF INDICATIONS OF COLD TEMPS/SNOW INCREASES WITH NEXT RUN. HAVE NOT MADE SIGNIFICANT ALTERATIONS TO THE EXTENDED. .GID...NONE DROZD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 11:51 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-142100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1151 AM CDT SAT APR 14 2001 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... THE COMBINATION OF A PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...AND A WARM FRONT EDGING NORTHWARD THROUGH KANSAS...WILL BE ENOUGH FOR SLIGHT THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. HOWEVER... RATHER DRY LOW LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE SHOULD LIMIT ANY WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMEN(T. ALTHOUGH SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY...IT WOULD NOT BE OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. GUYER
Local storm report, Apr 14, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
401 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
Q
0400 PM 11 S ASHERVILLE KS .88 INCH HAIL
04/14/01 MITCHELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.