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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2003, 2:24 AM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. 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
- May 19, 2003, 2:24 AM CDT (07:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2003, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:25 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
947 WUUS53 KGID 190724 SVRGID NEC137-190815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 224 AM CDT MON MAY 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * AT 220 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ATLANTA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOLDREGE AT 230 AM CDT... FUNK AT 240 AM CDT... PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN PHELPS 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 4034 9959 4048 9959 4052 9918 4034 9918 $$ 07 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 19, 2:04 AM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:04 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 204 AM CDT MON MAY 19 2003 SHRT TERM FOCUS CNTRD ARND DVLPG MCS OVR SW NE/NW KS AND THEN POST FROPA WINDS INTO THIS AFTN. AT 06Z...SFC TROF BISECTING NEB CWA BUT LTL EWD PUSH AS OF YET... AND AWAITING IMPENDING EWD EJECTION/ACCELERATION OF STG UPR TROF OVR MT AND POLAR SURGE DROPPING INTO NW NEB ATTM. AT LAST...06Z PROFILERS SHOWING SOME LL RESPONSE TO INTENSIFYING AGEO CIRC DVLPG BTWN SPLIT COUPLED JETS OVR NEB. IN RETURN...ELEVATED CONV CONTS TO EXPAND/INTENSIFY ALG WRN PERIPHERY OF CWA. HWVR WARM AIR ALOFT AND SEEMINGLY LIMITED INSTABILITY HAS PREVENTED MUCH MORE THEN PERHAPS AN ISOLATED MARGINALLY SVR STORM OR TWO SO FAR THIS MORNING. AT ANY POINT...RESIDUAL SHRA TO END W-E 15-18Z. OTHER CONCERN TDA WILL BE STG WINDS WITHIN INTENSE POST FNTL CAA REGIME...BUT XPCTN IS THAT WINDS WILL HOLD JUST BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. PREFER COLDER GUIDANCE NUMBERS PER DEGREE OF CAA AND CLD CVR TDA AND AGAIN TONIGHT AS WINDS DECOUPLE...SKIES CLEAR AND BIG CANUCK DOME BUILDS OVRHD. WILL LEAVE ANY FROST MENTION AT THIS POINT TO DAY SHIFT. AFT THAT...QUIET WEEK SHAPING UP AS WESTERLIES SHIFT INTO CANADA AND UPR RIDGE BUILDS THRU WRN US LEADING TO SLOW WARMUP AND DRY WX HERE. .GID...NONE. T
Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 11:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-191200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1111 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY ON MONDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN ADVANCE...AND ALONG THE COLD FRONT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED ALTHOUGH SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY LATE MORNING MONDAY...LEAVING STRONG NORTH WIND BEHIND. WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE LIKELY IN SOME AREAS...WHICH MAY LEAD TO LOCALLY HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS FOR DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE SOUTH ON MONDAY BRINGING SOME COOLER AIR TO THE REGION. PATCHY FROST IS POSSIBLE TUESDAY MORNING MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80...WITH RIVER VALLEYS OR LOW LYING AREAS THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE SPOTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. 09
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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.