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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Hastings, NE

May 22, 2002Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2002, 10:24 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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 22, 2002, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 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), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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
May 22, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 230324
SVRGRI
KSC089-230430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1024 PM CDT WED MAY 22 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 1019 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF IONIA...OR ABOUT 41 MILES WEST
  OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JEWELL AT 1040 PM CDT
  MANKATO AT 1045 PM CDT
  MONTROSE AT 1055 PM CDT
  FORMOSO AT 1100 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 QUARTERS.

LAT...LON 3958 9847 3958 9796 3998 9796 3997 9846

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, 8 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 24 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.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 7:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
709 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0659 PM    GAYLORD                   KS   TORNADO
05/22/02   SMITH                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 22, 7:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
715 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0713 PM    ZURICH                    KS   1 INCH HAIL
05/22/02   ROOKS                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 22, 7:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
741 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0650 PM    4 E EDGAR                 NE   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/22/02   CLAY

0735 PM    9 SE STOCKTON             KS   1 INCH HAIL
05/22/02   ROOKS

Local storm report, May 22, 9:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
906 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    2 E WEBBER                KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/22/02   JEWELL

0854 PM    7 S ALTON                 KS   1 INCH HAIL
05/22/02   OSBORNE                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, May 22, 9:38 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
938 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0907 PM    3 NW GILEAD               NE   .88 INCH HAIL
05/22/02   THAYER                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

0927 PM    CAWKER CITY               KS   .88 INCH HAIL
05/22/02   MITCHELL                       REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
                                          OBSERVER.

Local storm report, May 22, 10:16 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1016 PM CDT WED MAY 22 2002

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    HENDERSON                 NE   WIND DAMAGE
05/22/02   YORK                           IRRIGATION PIVOTS
                                          OVERTURNED NEAR
                                          HENDERSON. 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, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	44 min
May 22, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	61 min
May 22, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	38 min
May 22, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	49 min
May 22, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	55 min
May 22, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	48 min
May 22, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	45 min
May 22, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	44 min
May 22, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	55 min
May 22, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	58 min
May 22, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	64 min

Nearby

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

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.