Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Hastings, NE

May 2, 2001Jewell County, Kansas; Nuckolls County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 10:46 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas; Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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
May 2, 2001, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2001, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jewell County, KS, Nuckolls County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
459 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 030346
SVRGRI
KSC089-NEC129-030415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1046 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1044 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURR OAK...OR ABOUT 38
  MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BOSTWICK AT 1100 PM CDT
  HARDY AT 1105 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN JEWELL AND SOUTHERN NUCKOLLS COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING
THUNDERSTORM WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF 
DIMES AND QUARTERS ARE LIKELY.

$$

LAT...LON 3986 9836 3983 9803 4013 9784 4013 9825

09
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 May 2, 2:15 PM CDT, 8 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:15 PM CDT, 8 hours 31 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
215 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001

CHALLENGE FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE IS PRECIPITATION CHANCES.

SURFACE FRONT TO REMAIN JUST SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA THROUGH PERIOD
WITH UPPER LOW REMAINING OVER SOUTHWESTERN US.  OCCASIONAL SHORT
WAVES WILL RIDE UP IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW TO COMBINE WITH MORE THAN
ABUNDANT MOISTURE TO BRING OCCASIONAL ROUNDS OF PRECIPITATION.

MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT IN OVERALL PICTURE WITH SOME SLIGHT
DIFFERENCES IN SMALLER DETAILS AND TIMING.  BASICALLY WILL FOLLOW
AVN/ETA MODELS FOR THIS PACKAGE.

NEXT WAVE MOVES INTO REGION TONIGHT AND WILL BRING BEST CHANCES FOR
PRECIP AFTER MIDNIGHT.  LATEST SCANS FROM KUEX DOES SHOW SOME
DEVELOPMENT ALONG KS/NE BORDER.  MAY HAVE TO ADJUST WORDING FOR
FIRST PERIOD.  WILL DO THAT BEFORE ISSUING PACKAGE.  WITH CLOUDS
AND PRECIP...TEMPS TO SETTLE INTO 45 TO 50 DEGREE RANGE.

A RAINY DAY SLATED FOR THURSDAY AS ANOTHER WAVE MOVES THROUGH.  MOST
PRECIP SHOULD BE WINDING DOWN BY AFTERNOON BUT GIVEN OVERRUNNING
SITUATION...TIMING WILL BE HARD TO PIN DOWN.  WITH NO SUN...TEMPS
WONT GO TOO FAR WITH MIDDLE 50S THE RULE.

50 TO 60 PERCENT POPS TO CONTINUE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY NIGHT
AS NOT MUCH CHANGE IN PATTERN EXPECTED.  SO MOIST FORECAST
CONTINUES WITH SIMILAR TEMPS.  NIGHT TIME READINGS IN MIDDLE 40S AND
DAYTIME HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE 50S.

UPPER SYSTEM FINALLY STARTS TO MOVE THIS WEEKEND WITH STILL GOOD
CHANCE FOR MOISTURE SATURDAY INTO MIDDAY SUNDAY.  WILL CONTINUE
RAIN CHANCES INTO THE WEEKEND.  THINGS TRY TO DRY OUT BEHIND SYSTEM
FOR THE START OF THE NEXT WEEK AND WILL CONTINUE CURRENT DRY
FORECAST INTO MID WEEK.  ANOTHER FRONT PROGGED TO COME THROUGH ON
MONDAY BUT WILL HAVE LITTLE IN THE WAY OF MOISTURE TO WORK WITH.
WITH SOME SUNSHINE...TEMPERATURES TO REACH INTO THE MIDDLE 60S TO
MIDDLE 70S.

.GID...NONE.-

KISNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDThayer36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2001Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.