Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

Jun 15, 2002, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)

Expired

Jun 15, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT

In force

28 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rooks County, KS

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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.

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
301 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES EAST OF CODELL TO 5 MILES
  SOUTH OF PALCO...OR FROM 39 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG TO 41 MILES
  SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN ROOKS COUNTY AT 310 PM CDT

NUMEROUS REPORTS HAVE COME IN FROM ROOKS COUNTY OF WINDS GREATER 
THAN 60 MPH.  A FEW REPORTS OF HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER HAVE 
ALSO BEEN RECEIVED.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN ROOKS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3927 9960 3914 9958 3915 9905 3933 9906

NNNN

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 2:50 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
250 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

IN THE SHORT TERM...FORECAST WILL REFLECT EXITING SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS EVENING SOUTHERN SECTIONS...WHILE CLEARING
TAKES HOLD IN THE NORTH. MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN MOVING STRONG WARM
ADVECTION/FRONTOGENETIC FORCING SOUTH OF THE CWFA THIS EVENING.
WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVERNIGHT...CAUSING LIGHT WINDS...MAY
LEND TO SOME PATCHY OVER REGIONS WHICH EXPERIENCED TODAYS HAIL
AND RAIN.

LITTLE TIME TO DELVE INTO SUNDAY..AND WILL CONTINUE THE MAIN
THEME PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED. KAIN FRITCH HAS HANDLE THIS EVENT
WELL...AND CONTINUES TO HINT SCATTERED DEVELOPMENT AGAIN SUNDAY
AFTERNOON...ALBEIT NOT AS IMPRESSIVE AS TODAY. ETA/AVN ARE LESS
AGGRESSIVE WITH QPF SUNDAY...AND HPC MANUAL PROGS FOLLOW THIS
TREND. WARMING BEGINS TO PUNCH INTO THE AREA MONDAY...AND HAVE
OPTED TO WARM TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY...TAKING SOMEWHAT OF A
WAIT AN SEE ATTITUDE.

FEW CHANGES TO MID-WEEK...OTHER THAN PUSHING THE THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES INTO THURSDAY TOO. STRONG LIKELIHOOD THAT WARMING MID
LEVEL TEMPERATURES WILL SQUELCH STORMS TUESDAY...AND MUCH OF THE
DAY WEDNESDAY. AS FRONT IMPEDES ON AREA...THE RISK FOR STORMS
WILL INCREASE LATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SEASONALLY WARMISH
TEMPERATURES LOOK ON TARGET.

.GID...NONE.

MORITZ

In the hours before

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1026 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002

......SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT
ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

THOUGH SCATTERED STRONG AND OCCASIONALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE NOTED IN SOME AREAS TODAY...THE NEED FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS
NOT EXPECTED.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY BE WEST OF AN ORD NEBRASKA...TO
HASTINGS...TO BELOIT KANSAS LINE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. ISOLATED
STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL TO SIZE OF NICKELS...AND LOCALLY
STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. DUE TO THE LIMITED INSTABILITY
AND WIND FIELDS...THE RISK FOR TORNADOES APPEARS SMALL...THUS THE
NEED FOR SPOTTERS IS NOT EXPECTED.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND
SHOULD DIMINISH IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY BY EARLY THIS EVENING.

MORITZ

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

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.