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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 8:52 PM CDT for Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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
- Jun 2, 2002, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gosper County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 2050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 TSRA CHCS WL RMN THE CONCERN THRU TUE WITH SFC FRONT GRADUALLY PROGRESSING SWD AS RIDGE OVR THE CNTRL CONUS IS FLATTENED. 50H HTS HAVE FALLEN ABOUT 40 M OVR THE PAST 24 HRS WITH 500 MB TEMPS A CPL DEGREES COOLER OVR NM/CO/WY. OTHERWISE...MID LVL TEMPS WHICH MAINTAINED CONTROL OF SAT EVE CONVECTION...RMN WARM OVR THE CNTRL PLNS. 18Z SFC LOW WAS CNTRD JUST N OF HLC WITH WARM FRONT ANALYZED ACRS THE NRN GID CWA. DP AXIS WAS POINTING INTO THE SPC MOD RISK AREA OVR NERN NEB. META PROGS 50-55KT AT 850 MB BY 06Z WITH DECENT FORCING ALNG THE WARM/STATIONARY FRONT OVR CNTRL NEB. LLVL JET ORIENTATION IS NOT AS GOOD AS LAST EVE WHEN SOME SHRA/TSRA BUBBLED OVR THE AREA...BUT WITH SOME LGT RADAR RTNS ALREADY IND OVR THE SWRN CWA AND NR THE NRN PERIMETER ...SLGT CHC TO CHC TSRA WL BE REINSERTED FOR TNGT. TSRA CHC FOR LATE MON AFTN/EVE LK BTR...AS DOES THE SVR THREAT WITH FRONT SOMEWHERE NR THE KS/NEB BRDR...UNDR MUCH WEAKER CAP. COOLER TEMPS AND QUICKER DRY FORECAST AS PER PREVIOUS MID WEEK FORECAST LK FINE. MAIN ALTERATIONS TO THE WEEKS FORECAST WL BE A MORE LIBERAL MODERATION OF TEMPS FOR LATE WEEK AS SOME RIDGING IS EXPECTED/PROGGED IN ADVN OF NXT TROF. UKMO/CANADIAN/MRF ARE IN GENL AGRMT WITH THE APPRCH OF THAT FEATURE BY THE WEEKEND...SO A RA MENTION WL BE ADDED FOR DAYS 6 AND 7. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-030000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 321 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED THE AREA TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE MEANTIME...SOUTHERLY FLOW HAS FORCED ADDITIONAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE PLAINS...HELPING TO FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THOUGH...ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME VERY ORGANIZED AS WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES HELP TO INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM GROWTH...THUS SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE MAINLY FOR AREAS NORTH OF I-80 THIS EVENING...WHILE ISOLATED ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 51 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.