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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 2002Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
Jun 12, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2002, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 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.

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 651 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2002-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 121100
SVRGRI
KSC123-121130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
600 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 554 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF CAWKER CITY...OR ABOUT 42
  MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CAWKER CITY AT 605 AM CDT
  GLEN ELDER AT 615 AM CDT
  BELOIT AT 625 AM CDT

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES 
AND QUARTERS.

LAT...LON 3934 9847 3931 9808 3956 9794 3956 9847

NNNN

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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 12, 3:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
328 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

...FORECAST CONCERN THIS CYCLE IS CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION LATE THIS
AFTERNOON/TONIGHT...

SURFACE BOUNDARY BISECTING KANSAS NE TO SW AS OF 07Z. SECONDARY
FRONT SET TO DROP SOUTH INTO THE CWA LATER THIS AFTERNOON WITH
COOLER/DRIER AIR BEHIND IT. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWED NORTH OF
THE BORDER UPPER LOW TAKING ITS TIME MOVING EAST ALTHOUGH SOME
SIGN OF THAT IN LAST FEW HOURS. SUBTROPICAL PLUME ACROSS TX AND OK
AND WONT BE A FACTOR FOR US. 70KT JET STREAK COULD BE SEEN
STARTING OUT IN SOUTHERN NEVADA ABOUT 19Z TUES AND MAKING IT TO
DENVER BY 06 OR 07Z. THIS HELPED TO SET OFF CONVECTION IN NW KS
OVERNIGHT. BRUNT OF THAT ACTIVITY SOUTH OF OUR CWA. WILL MAKE LAST
MINUTE DECISION ABOUT WHETHER TO INCLUDE ANY MORNING POPS. TOUGH TO
TELL IF CENTRAL KS MCS IS GETTING ANY LOW LEVEL JET SUPPORT AS GDA...
HVL...AND HBR PROFILERS ALL BELLY UP ATTM. PROFILERS DO HAVE LL JET
SUPPORT FOR MISSOURI MCS.

LATER TODAY...ALONG WITH SFC BOUNDARY NOTED ABOVE...800-700 MB WAVE
POISED TO MOVE THROUGH AROUND 00-03Z AS NOTED ON META AND AVN. TEMPS
SHOULD BE IN THE LOW TO UPPER 80S ACROSS CWA ALONG WITH RESPECTABLE
MOISTURE AT SFC UP TO 850 MB...WHERE DEW POINTS WILL BE IN THE
MIDDLE TEENS CELSIUS.  SOME COOLING WITH MID LEVEL THERMAL TROF. ALL
THIS RESULTS IN CAPES FROM 1500-2500 BY LATE AFTERNOON. THUS WILL
ADD A MENTION OF TSTMS FOR LATE AFTERNOON AS LAST THURSDAY I
UNDERESTIMATED THE EFFECT OF THE 700 MB SHORTWAVE AND WE ENDED UP
WITH SEVERE TSTMS. HEAVY RAIN SHOULD STAY WELL SOUTH OF AREA ALONG
FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH WILL BE OVER SOUTHERN KS.

AFTER THIS SYSTEM WE SHOULD BE IN FOR A FEW DAYS OF DRIER/COOLER
CONDITIONS AS WE STAY ON BACK SIDE OF SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW WHICH
IS PROGGED TO BE IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BY FRIDAY MORNING.

.GID...NONE.

EWALD

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 5:13 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-121700-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
513 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

A SECONDARY COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH ACROSS NEBRASKA DURING THE
DAY. IN ADDITION...A TROUGH IN THE MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE
EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S AND AMPLE
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL CREATE AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. ALL OF THESE
FACTORS SHOULD CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO ERUPT LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.

AT THIS TIME...THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER LOOKS TO BE
FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD CONTINUE TO
MONITOR THE SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE DAY. AN UPDATE TO THIS PRODUCT
WILL BE ISSUED BETWEEN 11 AM AND NOON.

EWALD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell52 min
Jun 12, 1:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks44 min
Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDRooks45 min

Nearby

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

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.