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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 10:57 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 12, 2002, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
898 WUUS53 KGID 130357 SVRGRI KSC089-130430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1056 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1055 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RANDALL...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FORMOSO AT 1125 PM 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 NICKELS AND QUARTERS. LAT...LON 3958 9816 3956 9788 3976 9769 3989 9794 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 Aug 12, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 955 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 SCT TSRA CONT TO DVLP ALNG IN VICINITY OF 850 MB CDFNT AS PER PROFILERS/00Z RAOBS. IN ADDITION...ADVNG SHRTWV...MDL EPV FIELDS...MID LVL MSTR OBS AND PROGS AND COOLING MID LVL TEMPS ALL SPPRT THE CONTD MENTION OF ELEVATED SCT SHRA/TSRA CWA-WIDE FOR THE OVRNGT PD. EVE UPDATES WERE GENLY COSMETIC. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 5:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-131200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 533 PM CDT MON AUG 12 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION PROBABLY WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TONIGHT OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...A FRONTAL BOUNDARY SITUATED FROM EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH NORTHWEST KANSAS WILL BE THE FOCAL POINT FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS...MAINLY ACROSS SECTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AS THE BOUNDARY CONTINUES FARTHER SOUTH THIS EVENING...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DECREASE. DEPENDING UPON THE POSITION OF THE FRONT OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...THE EXCEPTION FOR SEVERE WEATHER MAY BE OVER ROOKS...OSBORNE AND MITCHELL COUNTIES WHERE LARGE HAIL...AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY A FEW STORMS. ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PASSES THROUGH. SOME STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY SMALL HAIL. OTHERWISE...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. SPOTTER GROUPS...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THEIR PREFERRED LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATED FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS.
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.