Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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 13, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nuckolls County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 2424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WUUS53 KGID 140044 SVRGID NEC129-140115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 741 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NUCKOLLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 737 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES EAST OF OAK TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOSTWICK...OR FROM 41 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS TO 34 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS INCLUDE... SUPERIOR... THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS PASSED FOR PEOPLE NORTH AND WEST OF NELSON. PEOPLE IN NUCKOLLS 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 4035 9784 4034 9827 4000 9826 4001 9783 $$ NNNN EWALD
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 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 207 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 MAIN CONCERN IS TSTMS THRU THE EVE AND THEN AGAIN LATE THURS WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATES UPPER TROF PROGRESSING INTO THE WESTERN DAKOTAS WHILE AT THE SFC...THE PRE FRONTAL TROF WAS LOCATED FROM WEST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH SW NEB...AND COLD FRONT EXTENDING THRU NEB PANHANDLE. LATEST LAPS DATA INDICATES CAPE VALUES AROUND 1500J/KG WITH WEAKENING CAP. TSTMS ALREADY FIRING ALONG BOUNDARY FM NR VTN TO BBW AND SATELLITE SHOWS CU FIELD EXTENDING SOUTH TOWARD MCCOOK. SVR WATCH JUST ISSUED FOR CWA AS LINE OF STORMS DEVELOP...AND PRIMARY HAZARD IS HAIL/WIND. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS CWA REMAINDER OF AFTN/EVE THEN STORMS TO END BY MIDNIGHT AS FRONT MOVES EAST INTO EASTERN NEB/KS. CLOSED UPPER LOW WILL PROGRESSING SOUTHEAST THRU SOUTH DAKOTA WILL REACH NORTHERN IOWA ON WED. ANY ADDITIONAL PCPN SHLD REMAIN EAST OF CWA...WITH TEMPS COOLING BACK TO NEAR NORMAL...ALTHOUGH WILL SEE BREEZY/WINDY CONDITIONS. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL TRACK ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND APPROACH THE CWA LATE THURS INTO FRIDAY. MODELS ARE TRENDING FURTHER SOUTH WITH THIS SYSTEM...AND HAVE LIMITED POPS TO THE SOUTHERN 2/3RDS OF THE CWA. GFS IS MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH NORTHWARD EXTENT OF LEAD WAVE WITH SYSTEM THAN ETA...SO TRACK WILL STILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. DRY WEATHER FORECAST THRU THE WEEKEND...THEN TSTM CHCS RETURN MON/TUE AS NEXT BOUNDARY AND UPPER TROF APPROACH. .GID...NONE. FAY
Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 1:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 145 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE SANDHILL REGION OF NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD SOUTH AND EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING...WITH THE CHANCE FOR SOME STORMS OF BECOMING SEVERE...ESPECIALLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 183. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL MOVE WEST TO EAST ACROSS NEBRASKA AND KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PUSHING EAST OF THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ROCKIES. DAYTIME HEATING AND SOUTHERLY MOIST FLOW RETURNING TO THE REGION AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WILL FURTHER DESTABILIZE AN ALREADY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...AFFORDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS ANTICIPATED FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. 10
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 13, 6:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
606 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0548 PM 4 N (GRI)GRAND IS RGNL AR NE FUNNEL CLOUD
05/13/03 HALL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0554 PM (GRI)GRAND IS RGNL ARPT NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 HALL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
609 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM (GRI)GRAND IS RGNL ARPT NE TORNADO
05/13/03 HALL BRIEF TOUCHDOWN ON
ABBOT ROAD. REPORTED BY
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0602 PM (GRI)GRAND IS RGNL ARPT NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 HALL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, May 13, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
639 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0551 PM GENOA NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 NANCE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0608 PM (GRI)GRAND IS RGNL ARPT NE TORNADO
05/13/03 HALL FENCE AND SMALL
STRUCTURE DESTROYED.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0614 PM CHAPMAN NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 MERRICK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0626 PM 1 W AURORA NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 HAMILTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Special weather statement, May 13, 6:47 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
NEZ039-040-046-047-140015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 647 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 360 HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR A PART OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A COLD FRONT HAD SWEPT THROUGH THE AREA...WITH NORTHWEST WINDS AND DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THE REST OF TONIGHT. T
Local storm report, May 13, 7:41 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
741 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0416 PM 8 W ORD NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 VALLEY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0609 PM GRAND IS NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 HALL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0609 PM (GRI)GRAND IS RGNL ARPT NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 HALL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0640 PM 3 SW HENDERSON NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 YORK REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0650 PM BRADSHAW NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 YORK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0703 PM SUTTON NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 CLAY
0709 PM 6 SE CLAY CENTER NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 CLAY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0720 PM 4 SE DEWEESE NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 CLAY REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, May 13, 7:42 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
742 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0548 PM 4 N GRAND IS NE FUNNEL CLOUD
05/13/03 HALL 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 13, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 39 min |
| May 13, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.