Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

Jun 6, 2002, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)

Expired

Jun 6, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT

In force

44 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Adams County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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.

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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WUUS53 KGID 070201
SVRGRI
NEC001-099-070245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
900 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 859 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF HASTINGS TO
  HEARTWELL...OR FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF HASTINGS TO 17 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF KEARNEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS INCLUDE
JUNIATA...HASTINGS...ROSELAND AND AYR.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH WERE REPORTED 6 MILES NORTH OF MINDEN AT
855 PM. PEOPLE IN MINDEN SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 

THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

LAT...LON 4069 9829 4064 9917 4035 9916 4035 9827

NNNN

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 2:44 PM CDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
244 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002

...FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE TIMING SMALL PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH
SUNDAY AND THEN INCREASING CHANCES INTO MONDAY...

SURFACE PLOT AT NOON HAD TROUGH IN WESTERN SDAK AND NEB WITH WIND
SHIFT AND DEWPTS IN THE 40S BEHIND TROUGH AND 50S AHEAD. 12Z UPPER
AIR...SATELLITE AND PROFILERS HAVE 700 WAVE MOVING OUR WAY BUT
STILL WEST OF MRR AND RWD PROFILER SITES AT 17Z. SOME AC ASSOCIATED
WITH WAVE NOW ENTERING CWA. SURFACE TEMPS RUNNING ABOUT TEN DEGREES
HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY.

BEST FORCING STILL WELL NORTH WITH EMBEDDED WAVES MOVING QUICKLY
ALONG ZONAL FLOW AFFECTING THE DAKOTAS AND MINNESOTA.  THIS LOOKS
TO BE THE CASE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

FRIDAY NIGHT PRECIP CHANCES LOOK BEST IN NORTHERN CWA CLOSER TO
FRONT. AVN HAS COME INTO LINE WITH ETA AS FAR AS PUTTING FRONT FROM
NE TO SW NEB WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT FOR 48 HOURS WHICH SOUNDS
FAMILIAR TO A WEEK AGO. INITIAL ACTIVITY STILL TO FIRE WELL NORTH
BUT COULD GET AN MCS OVERNIGHT AND DEPENDING WHERE IT INITIATES IT
MAY CLIP NORTHERN AND EASTERN CWA.  MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES LOOK TO
INCREASE MORE ON SATURDAY WITH AVN AND ETA DEPICTING 15 OR 16C AT
700 MB. THUS WILL LEAVE SAT NIGHT DRY WITH ONLY A STRAY TSTM AT
MOST WHICH AGAIN WAS SIMILAR TO A WEEK AGO.

WILL INTRODUCE POPS IN AGAIN SUN AFTN/EVENING WITH IMPULSES EJECTING
AHEAD OF MAIN UPPER TROUGH AND SFC BOUNDARY IN AREA.  MONDAY STILL
LOOKING PROBABLE FOR SEVERE OUTBREAK IN THE PLAINS BUT LOCATION
TOUGH TO TELL AS IT MAY COME ACROSS OUR AREA DURING THE MORNING
RATHER THAN AFTERNOON. MODELS CONSISTENT IN LIFTING WAVE OUT RAPIDLY
AFTER THAT SO WILL KEEP REST OF FORECAST DRY WITH WARMING TREND AS
RIDGING TO RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF OVER THE HIGH AND CENTRAL PLAINS BY
NEXT THURS ACCORDING TO NCEP ENSEMBLE.

.GID...NONE.

EWALD

In the hours before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-071200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
507 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS PART OF SOUTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA BUT SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG A COLD FRONT THIS EVENING MAINLY
NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GREELEY TO HOLDREGE.  THE MAIN THREAT FROM
THESE STORMS APPEARS TO BE THUNDERSTORM DOWNBURST WINDS ALTHOUGH
LARGE HAIL COULD ALSO OCCUR.

THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER DARK.

DROZD

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.