Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 11:09 PM CDT for Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2001, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 030417 COR SVRGRI NEC169-030445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1115 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... THAYER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1104 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF DESHLER...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DESHLER AT 1135 PM CDT HEBRON AT 1145 PM CDT PEOPLE IN THAYER COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. $$ FAY LAT...LON 4001 9780 4002 9741 4025 9739 4033 9775
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 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:15 PM CDT, 8 hours 54 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 29 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.