Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.
Did it verify
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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
830 WUUS53 KGID 230000 SVRGRI KSC183-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 700 PM CDT MON APR 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SMITH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 657 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SMITH CENTER...OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE SMITH CENTER...BELLAIRE AND LEBANON. PEOPLE IN SMITH COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS ARE LIKELY. LAT...LON 3994 9903 3959 9901 3957 9852 3998 9852 GUYER 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 Apr 22, 1:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 1:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 144 PM CDT MON APR 22 2002 ...TOPSY TURVY TEMPS THE CHALLENGE THIS WEEK... 12Z RAOBS AND SAT SHOW WK WV COMING OUT OF WY ATTM AND MORE IMPORTANT UPSTREAM SYS ACRS SW CANADA. AT THE SFC...HIGH PRES WAS RETREATING EWD W/HEALTHY WAA UNDERWAY OVR WRN PLAINS PER PROFILER NETWORK. WK THERMAL TROF BISECTING CWA...LIFTING NWD AND LEADING TO ROBUST TEMP JUMP W/PASSAGE AT THE SFC...ALTHOUGH STG MIXING THIS AFTN SHLD ALLOW TEMPS TO LEVEL OFF NR FCST HIGHS. 12Z MODEL RUNS CONSISTENT THRU THE SHORT TERM. SOME ISOLD ELEVATED DVLPMNT OCCURRING ALG LEADING EDGE OF WY MID LVL TROF AXIS OVR ERN PANHANDLE...AND WILL POSE AN ISOLD CHC HERE THIS EVENING...HWVR SUB CLD LYR EXTREMELY DRY AND DOUBT MUCH IF ANYTHING MAKES IT TO THE SFC. DEEPENING SWRLY FLW ALG W/LG SCALE HGT RISES AND BLDG THERMAL RIDGE WILL MAKE FOR MILD NIGHT TONIGHT AND WARM TUE. GIVEN TRACK OF ASSOCD UPR TROF AND LACK OF SIG WV DVLPMNT ALG POTENT COLD FRONT... DEEP SWRLY FLW TO PUSH LL MSTR AXIS E OF CWA THEREBY PREVENTING ANY CONV DVLPMNT HERE TUE NIGHT AND WILL AGAIN DROP POP MENTION. OF FAR GREATER CONCERN WILL BE INITIAL POST FNTL ISALLOBARIC PUSH...WHICH COMBINED WITH VRY STEEP LL LAPSE RATES BRINGS A HIGH GRADIENT WIND THREAT LTR TUE NIGHT. COULD EASILY SEE GUSTS TO 50+MPH W/FROPA. HWVR...THINGS WILL ABATE RATHER QUICKLY ON WED AS CAA BURST WKNS. MX TEMPS TRICKY W LL COLD PUSH MODERATING BY AFTN...AND PLENTY OF LT APRIL INSOLATION. NGM LOOKS SOUR W/ITS LOW 50S PROG AT GRI VS FAN LOW 60S AND WILL GIVE WARMER NUMBERS THE CONTD NOD. MAJOR MED RANGE MODEL DISCREPANCIES CONT W/UPCOMING LT WEEK/EARLY WEEKEND SYS. ENSEMBLE RUNS AS A WHOLE FVR ECMWF DEPICTION EARLY ON AND THAT SEEMS TO BE THE TREND OVR THE LAST FEW DYS. AGAIN...XPC DECENT RAIN CHCS FRI/SAT AND WARMER THEN MRF MOS TEMPS WHICH CONT TO APPEAR SIGNIFICANTLY BIASED ON THE COLD SIDE. .GID...NONE. TEH
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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.