Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2003, 2:06 AM CDT for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 24, 2003, 2:06 AM CDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 24, 2:00 AM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:00 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003 ONGOING TSRA MOVING SWD ALNG TIGHT INSTABILITY GRADIENT/850 MB FRONT UNDR NW FLOW AS OF 07Z. TSRA PROGRESS WL DETERMINE THE MRNG GRID SETUP...BUT LKS THAT THIS ACTIVITY WILL PUSH INTO THE KS CWA BY ISSUANCE TIME WITH LITTLE IND OF ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAFALL FOR THE NXT SVRL DAYS AS SFC FRONT PROGRESSES S AND WWD WITH BROAD LOW PROGGED TO DIG OVR THE GREAT LAKES AND OHIO VALLEY. WL BACK OFF SUN AND MON TEMPS TO ARND THE 70F BOTH DAYS WITH ERLY SFC COMPONENT AND MID LVL TROF JUTTING ACRS THE MO RIVER. FAST WARMUP FOR TUE NOW LKS TOO FAST AND WL BACK OFF TO LWR 70S OVR THE ERN ZONES...WITH MID 70S W. REST OF THE WEEK LKS OK FOR NOW WITH DOWNSLOPE WND AND BLDG RIDGE TO WARM TEMPS...NO MAJOR CHANGES TO DAYS 5-7. .GID...NONE. 09
Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 7:14 PM CDT, 6 hours 52 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-241200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 714 PM CDT FRI MAY 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD BY LATE EVENING AND LAST THROUGH THE NIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL SPILL INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY LATE EVENING AS THEY SHIFT SOUTH INTO AN AXIS OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. AFTER 10 PM...ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS...AS STRONGER LOW LEVEL WINDS SET UP IN THAT REGION. THOSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST...AND ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL OVERNIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND LOCALLY STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS TO ABOUT 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS THROUGH MID MORNING. THOSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY NOON. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER LOCAL OR INDIVIDUAL SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF DEPLOYMENT...IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES THEIR COMMUNITY OR AREA. MORITZ
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 24, 12:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1231 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 AM 4 N GOTHENBURG NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/03 DAWSON REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Special weather statement, May 24, 12:42 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
NEZ039-046-240615- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1242 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... VALLEY AND SHERMAN COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF THE REGION...AND NO LONGER POSE A THREAT TO PEOPLE IN THIS AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. 09 NNNN
Local storm report, May 24, 2:04 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
204 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0203 AM 5 N OXFORD NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/24/03 FURNAS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 58 min |
| May 24, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 42 min |
| May 24, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 50 min |
| May 24, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks, Smith | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.