Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2002, 6:40 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2002, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:13 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Zurich, KS | |
| May 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Stockton, KS |
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.
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 22, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 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 222340 SVRGRI KSC163-230030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 639 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 638 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF ZURICH...OR ABOUT 42 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ZURICH AT 645 PM CDT PLAINVILLE AT 650 PM CDT PEOPLE IN ROOKS 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 3914 9961 3915 9905 3956 9906 3956 9959 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 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002 ...WINDS AND TSTM CHCS THIS AFTN/EVE ARE THE MAIN CONCERNS... STRONG SURFACE GRADIENT WINDS STILL RUNNING 20 TO 30 AND GUSTING NEAR 35 KNOTS IN EASTERN CWA. HOWEVER PROGRESS OF FRONT HEADING IN FROM WEST IS SLOWLY WIDENING THE GRADIENT...NEAR KEARNEY AS WE SPEAK...TURNING WINDS WEST AND DROPPING TO 10 TO 15 MPH...SO LETTING WIND ADVISORY GO. AS FRONT/DRYLINE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO APPROACH FROM THE WEST ...EXPECTING CONVECTION TO FIRE UP THIS AFTERNOON NEAR DRYLINE BOUNDARY. CURRENTLY SFC MOISTURE HAS DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S AHEAD...WITH MID 20S BEHIND. MINOR MID LVL ENERGY MOVING THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON WILL HELP...WITH MAIN SHORTWAVE AXIS STILL HANGING BACK INTO SERN CO...SO EXPECT WHOLE EVENT TO LAST OVERNIGHT INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. SPC CURRENTLY HAS MOST OF ERN CWA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. EARLY INDICATIONS AND MOISTURE TONGUE RIGHT NOW SHOW BEST ACTIVITY OVER ERN HALF OF KA COUNTIES AND EXTREME ERN AND SERN COUNTIES IN NE TARGETED FOR THUNDER...WHICH WILL ALSO LIKELY BE THE SAME AREA TARGETED FOR SEVERE. LARGE HAIL AND WINDS LIKELY WITH SCATTERED COVERAGE WITH LCL REMAINING LARGELY ABOVE 5000 FT. LINE STORMS NORTHEAST OF THE AREA...WITH BEST CHANCES FOR SUPERCELLS AND TORNADIC STORMS BETWEEN SLN AND LNK...JUST SCRAPING OUR SERN CWA. BEST CAPES RUNNING DOWN HEAR TOO...WITH NEAR 1000 THIS AFTERNOON...TO 1500 BY MID EVENING. GOOD OPENINGS IN SCT TO BKN ST CU DECK ALLOWING DECENT HEATING...AND GOOD LL CONVERGENCE STRETCHING BETWN EAR AND HLC TO RSL...WITH SOME ENHANCED CONVECTION GOING ON RIGHT NOW. AGAIN...COVERAGE ONLY LOOKS SCATTERED AT BEST SO GOING WITH A 40 POP FOR NOW OVER ERN CWA. BEYOND...DRY THU THEN COOL AND A GOOD CHANCE OF PRECIP AS TILTED TROUGH FINALLY PULLS OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST AND ROCKIES. THUS...KEEPING CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS GOING THROUGH SATURDAY. STAYED CLOSE TO PREV TEMPS WITH COOL DOWN AND THEN WARM UP...NO REAL CHANGES TO EXTENDED. CHC OF THUNDER FOR MON TUE THEN DRY WED. 10
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-230500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 522 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...AND IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM FRANKLIN OF FRANKLIN COUNTY TO NEAR GENOA OF NANCE COUNTY. THE THREAT WITH THESE STORMS IS DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND AND LARGE HAIL. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EASTWARD AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. SEVERE STORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...MAINLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...AND OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6 AND EAST OF ROUTE 281. A TORNADO IS POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS ALONG WITH THE THREAT OF DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND AND HAIL. 09
Local storm report, May 22, 6:17 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
617 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM KENSINGTON KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/22/02 SMITH REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 55 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.