Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2002, 3:17 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 491 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 679 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 112017 SVRGRI KSC123-112115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 315 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 310 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF VICTOR...OR ABOUT 44 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST MITCHELL COUNTY THROUGH 415 PM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST MITCHELL 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 3953 9846 3921 9846 3923 9794 3953 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 May 11, 1:14 AM CDT, 14 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 1:14 AM CDT, 14 hours 3 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 11, 11:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-121200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1145 AM CDT SAT MAY 11 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON... A COOL FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH THROUGH NEBRASKA INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH WARM...MOIST UNSTABLE AIR TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO MANKATO AFTER 2 PM. STORMS WHICH DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED TORNADO. A CLOUDY...COOL AND STABLE AIRMASS WILL RESIDE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH TONIGHT. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED IN THIS AREA. FAY
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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.