Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2002, 6:13 PM CST for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 8, 2002, 6:13 PM CST (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2002, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:46 PM CST | 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 1703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 090013 SVRGRI KSC089-123-141-183-090100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 612 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SMITH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHEASTERN OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHWESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 602 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSBORNE...OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... IONIA AT 630 PM CST ESBON AT 635 PM CST BURR OAK AT 640 PM CST WEBBER AT 655 PM CST PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN SMITH...JEWELL...NORTHEASTERN OSBORNE AND NORTHWESTERN MITCHELL COUNTIES 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. $$ LAT...LON 3942 9875 3932 9840 3997 9799 3999 9846 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 Mar 8, 2:26 PM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 8, 2:26 PM CST, 3 hours 47 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 226 PM CST FRI MAR 8 2002 MAIN CONCERNS WILL BE MIXED BAG OF WEATHER TONIGHT. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT ON LOCATION AND TIMING OF CURRENT STORM SYSTEM. SOME DISAGREEMENT ON OVERALL AMOUNTS OF PRECIPITATION. AFTER SYSTEM ZIPS OUT OF THE AREA...ALL MODELS BRING UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA TO RETURN QUIETER WEATHER. COLDER AIR BEGINNING TO WORK ITS WAY SOUTH AND EAST OUT OF NORTHERN PLAINS. KODX HAD BRIEF PERIOD OF FRZG DRZL BUT HAS CHANGED TO SNOW. REST OF AREA TO SEE CONTINUED PERIOD OF FRZG DRZL/RAIN THIS EVENING BUT COLD AIR TO START ITS BLAST ACROSS THE AREA AFTER SUNSET. THIS WILL QUICKLY CHANGE PRECIP OVER TO SNOW. GIVEN DYNAMICS OF SYSTEM...A FAST SHOT OF SNOW IS EXPECTED BUT IT WILL BE OCCASIONAL HEAVY AND SOME AREAS MAY PICK UP SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW. THE KANSAS ZONES AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA ZONES WILL BE THE BIG QUESTION OF WHEN CHANGE OVER WILL TAKE PLACE. FEEL THAT CHANGE WILL TAKE OVER BEFORE A MAJOR ACCUMULATION OF ICE OCCURS. THEREFORE WILL CONTINUE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TONIGHT ACROSS ENTIRE FORECAST AREA FOR COMBINATION OF FREEZING PRECIP...THEN SNOW...AND THEN WIND AND BLOWING SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE WEATHER STARTS LOOKING BETTER BY SUNRISE SATURDAY BUT WINDY CONDITIONS TO REMAIN UNTIL MIDDAY AS SYSTEM RAPIDLY LIFTS NORTHEAST. COLD AIR ADVECTION TO KEEP SKIES PARTLY CLOUDY AND TEMPS COOL. HIGHS ONLY TO BE NEAR FREEZING MARK. GRADIENT STARTS TO WEAKEN DURING THE AFTERNOON AS SURFACE HIGH SLIDES INTO OKLAHOMA. DRY ATMOSPHERE AND UPPER RIDGE HOLDS THEN THROUGH MID WEEK. A WEAK SYSTEM TRIES TO INFLUENCE PATTERN ON MONDAY BUT WILL HAVE VERY LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH SO WILL GO WITH PTCLDY SKIES. TEMPS TO WARM FROM THE 40S AND LOW 50S SUNDAY INTO THE 50S AND 60S BY TUESDAY. NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM STARTS TO WIND UP IN THE WESTERN US ON THURSDAY AND WILL BRING CHANCES FOR PRECIP FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. .GID...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ALL ZONES TONIGHT. KISNER
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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.