Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 8:39 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 2, 2002, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 01:39 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 030139 SVRGRI KSC163-030230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 839 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 839 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF PALCO...OR ABOUT 48 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE PALCO...ZURICH...PLAINVILLE...CODELL AND WEBSTER STATE PARK. PEOPLE IN ROOKS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. LAT...LON 3914 9959 3915 9906 3955 9907 3955 9960 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 Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 TSRA CHCS WL RMN THE CONCERN THRU TUE WITH SFC FRONT GRADUALLY PROGRESSING SWD AS RIDGE OVR THE CNTRL CONUS IS FLATTENED. 50H HTS HAVE FALLEN ABOUT 40 M OVR THE PAST 24 HRS WITH 500 MB TEMPS A CPL DEGREES COOLER OVR NM/CO/WY. OTHERWISE...MID LVL TEMPS WHICH MAINTAINED CONTROL OF SAT EVE CONVECTION...RMN WARM OVR THE CNTRL PLNS. 18Z SFC LOW WAS CNTRD JUST N OF HLC WITH WARM FRONT ANALYZED ACRS THE NRN GID CWA. DP AXIS WAS POINTING INTO THE SPC MOD RISK AREA OVR NERN NEB. META PROGS 50-55KT AT 850 MB BY 06Z WITH DECENT FORCING ALNG THE WARM/STATIONARY FRONT OVR CNTRL NEB. LLVL JET ORIENTATION IS NOT AS GOOD AS LAST EVE WHEN SOME SHRA/TSRA BUBBLED OVR THE AREA...BUT WITH SOME LGT RADAR RTNS ALREADY IND OVR THE SWRN CWA AND NR THE NRN PERIMETER ...SLGT CHC TO CHC TSRA WL BE REINSERTED FOR TNGT. TSRA CHC FOR LATE MON AFTN/EVE LK BTR...AS DOES THE SVR THREAT WITH FRONT SOMEWHERE NR THE KS/NEB BRDR...UNDR MUCH WEAKER CAP. COOLER TEMPS AND QUICKER DRY FORECAST AS PER PREVIOUS MID WEEK FORECAST LK FINE. MAIN ALTERATIONS TO THE WEEKS FORECAST WL BE A MORE LIBERAL MODERATION OF TEMPS FOR LATE WEEK AS SOME RIDGING IS EXPECTED/PROGGED IN ADVN OF NXT TROF. UKMO/CANADIAN/MRF ARE IN GENL AGRMT WITH THE APPRCH OF THAT FEATURE BY THE WEEKEND...SO A RA MENTION WL BE ADDED FOR DAYS 6 AND 7. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-030000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 321 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED THE AREA TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE MEANTIME...SOUTHERLY FLOW HAS FORCED ADDITIONAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE PLAINS...HELPING TO FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THOUGH...ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME VERY ORGANIZED AS WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES HELP TO INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM GROWTH...THUS SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE MAINLY FOR AREAS NORTH OF I-80 THIS EVENING...WHILE ISOLATED ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. DEE
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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.