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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2003, 12:27 AM CDT for Franklin County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2003, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 761 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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, 3:14 PM CDT, 9 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:14 PM CDT, 9 hours 13 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 314 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2003 PREVIOUS FORECAST LOOKS VERY GOOD, THUS LITTLE CHANGES EXPECTED. THE CWA REMAINS ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF GOOD MID-LEVEL INSTABILITY, HENCE THE MID-LEVEL CONVECTION. UNTIL NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME ABATES...CHANCE FOR THUNDER WILL BE MENTIONED IN THE FORECAST. NW FLOW LOOKS TO DECREASE BY SUNDAY...THUS WILL PLAN TO CUTOFF THE POPS SATURDAY MORNING. TEMPS LOOK TO REMAIN AROUND CLIMO THROUGH SUNDAY. AS FOR NEXT WEEK...BASED ON A MAJORITY OF SURROUNDING OFFICES WILL OPT TO YANK SMALL POPS THAT WERE INTRODUCED THIS MORNING. ALSO...EXTENDED MODELS ARE ALL OVER THE ROAD...SO NO REAL CONSENSUS ON THE FORECAST FOR THIS TIME PERIOD AS WELL. SUFFICE-TO-SAY...TEMPS WILL REMAIN CLOSE OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE CLIMO. .GID...NONE. 16
Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 6:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-231200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 645 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE REGION...MOST LIKELY WEST OF A LEXINGTON NEBRASKA TO STOCKTON KANSAS LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FIRE IN A MARGINALLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE THIS EVENING...WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND LOCALLY STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS THE MAIN HAZARDS. STORM MOTION WILL BE EAST SOUTHEAST. WHILE THE INITIAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY WEAKEN TOWARD LATE EVENING...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT IN THE SAME AREA. AGAIN...A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER AFTER DAYBREAK FRIDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES THROUGH AT LEAST SATURDAY MORNING. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FRAME FOR ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVERNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT. A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST FROM THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS...AND MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH THIS ACTIVITY...A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG OR SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT. HOWEVER... LOCAL AND INDIVIDUAL SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO POSSIBLE DEPLOYMENT. MORITZ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
NEZ060-072-082-230430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1100 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2003 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... DAWSON...GOSPER AND FURNAS COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. MORITZ NNNN
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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.