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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 2002Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 9:49 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2002, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 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), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGID 130249
SVRGRI
KSC089-130345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
949 PM 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 1045 PM CDT

* AT 946 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF BURR OAK...OR ABOUT 42 MILES
  SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BURR OAK AT 955 PM CDT
  LOVEWELL STATE PARK AT 1000 PM CDT
  MANKATO AT 1005 PM CDT
  MONTROSE AT 1010 PM CDT
  JEWELL AT 1015 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN JEWELL 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 GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY.

LAT...LON 3998 9849 3958 9848 3958 9795 3999 9795

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 Jun 12, 4:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 4:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
410 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

...FORECAST CONCERN IS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...

SHORT AFD THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO ONGOING CONVECTION. SURFACE
ANALYSIS HAS FRONTAL BOUNDARY CUTTING ACROSS NEB...BASICALLY FROM
JUST SOUTH OF OMAHA WESTWARD. BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCAL POINT FOR
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN AN ALREADY MOIST AND UNSTABLE
ENVIRONMENT. LATEST COORDINATION WITH SPC INDICATES NEW TOR WATCH
#421...TO REPLACE OLD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #417...GOES THROUGH
9 PM. NEW WATCH COVERS NEB CWA FOR NOW FROM VALLEY COUNTY TO
FRANKLIN...AND AREAS EASTWARD. MODELS DO SUGGEST MID LEVEL STEERING
SHOULD KICK FRONT OUT EVENTUALLY.

.GID...NONE.

DEE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:59 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
859 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0845 PM    9 NNW MINDEN              NE   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   KEARNEY

0855 PM    6 N MINDEN                NE   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   KEARNEY                        REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:09 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
909 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0905 PM    MINDEN                    NE   4.5 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   KEARNEY                        REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:17 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
917 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0910 PM    3 NW HOLSTEIN             NE   .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   ADAMS

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:19 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
919 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0919 PM    BLUE HILL                 NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   WEBSTER

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:30 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
930 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0929 PM    CAMPBELL                  NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   FRANKLIN                       REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:46 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
946 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0940 PM    GUIDE ROCK                NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02   WEBSTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002 Every 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.