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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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.
- 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
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 09
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 45 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.