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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 1:27 AM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. 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
- May 11, 2002, 1:27 AM CDT (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 110627 SVRGRI NEC065-110700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 126 AM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 123 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HENDLEY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF NORTON KANSAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EDISON AT 135 AM CDT PEOPLE IN FURNAS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AS LARGE AS GOLF BALLS. LAT...LON 4034 10006 4003 10004 4001 9964 4036 9965 NNNN SCHURR
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 May 11, 1:14 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 1:14 AM CDT, 13 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 114 AM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 ...ONGOING CONVECTION MAIN CONCERN... STORMS ARE BEGINNING TO FILL IN OVER CWA THIS MORNING. STORMS APPROACHING FROM THE SW AT ABOUT 40KTS OR SO. STORMS FEEDING ON RETURN OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO THE AREA. 24HR CHANGE OF SFC DEW POINTS INDICATE A RISE OF ABOUT 30 DEGREES OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST KS. PCPN SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY AND WILL CONTINUE CATEGORICAL POPS TODAY. LATER THIS AFTERNOON..SFC LOW SHIFTS EAST AND WINDS ACROSS THE CWA SWITCH TO THE NW. TEMPS MAY NOT RISE ALL THAT MUCH OVER NRN SECTIONS OF THE CWA. PCPN CHANCES SHIFT SOUTHWARD TONIGHT. WILL CARRY SLGT POPS MID SECTIONS AND HIGHER POPS SOUTH. NEXT CHANCE FOR PCPN COMES MID WEEK. NO MAJOR CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. .GID...NONE. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 45 min |
| May 11, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 46 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.