Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 6:23 AM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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, 6:23 AM CDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 7:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:23 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 3957 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 17.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 121123 SVRGRI KSC089-121215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 622 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 715 AM CDT * AT 617 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF IONIA...OR ABOUT 39 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... IONIA AT 650 AM CDT JEWELL AT 705 AM CDT RANDALL AT 710 AM CDT MANKATO AT 715 AM CDT PEOPLE IN JEWELL 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 3958 9849 3957 9806 3982 9797 3994 9829 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 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 3:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 55 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, 1 hour 10 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
Local storm report, Jun 12, 6:22 AM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
622 AM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 AM CAWKER CITY KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 MITCHELLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 30 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.