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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Hastings, NE

June 9, 2003Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2003, 11:24 PM CDT for Osborne 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 9, 2003, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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
Jun 9, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 100424
SVRGID
KSC141-100515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1123 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1122 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTH OF ALTON...OR ABOUT 39 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NATOMA AT 1130 PM CDT
  OSBORNE AT 1145 PM CDT...
  DOWNS AT MIDNIGHT CDT...

PEOPLE IN OSBORNE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH AND HAIL TO THE 
SIZE OF GOLFBALLS IS POSSIBLE. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS 
SITUATION. TAKE SHELTER IN YOUR BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON 
THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3950 9903 3916 9900 3915 9852 3955 9852
$$
NNNN

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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 9, 2:24 PM CDT, 9 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:24 PM CDT, 9 hours before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
224 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

TSTMS TONIGHT AND INTERMITTENT CHCS THRU THE WEEK ARE THE MAIN CONCERNS

18Z SFC ANALYSIS PLACED SFC LOW IN THE NEB PANHANDLE...WITH SFC
TROF/DRYLINE EXTENDING SOUTH THRU SW NEB INTO FAR WESTERN KS.  SFC
MOISTURE AXIS OF LOW/MID 60S EXTENDED NORTH THRU OKLAHOMA THRU OUR
CWA.  SFC WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED ON THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE
CWA AND EXTENDED SOUTHEAST TOWARD OMAHA.  SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A
FEW CU HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN CWA LAST COUPLE OF HOURS WITH JUST
SOME ISOLATED -SHRA ATTM.  18Z SOUNDING FROM LBF INDICATES WARM H7
TEMPS NEAR 11C AND LAPS DATA ALSO INDICATES STRONGER CAP ACROSS
WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST ZONES.

EXPECT INITIAL TSTM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS NORTHERN CWA THIS AFTN IN
VCNTY OF WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THEN MORE WIDESPREAD TSTM
DEVELOPMENT AFT 00Z THIS EVENING AS COOL FRONT APPROACHES AND
CROSSES CWA ROUGHLY BTWN 03-12Z.  LAPS DATA INDICATES A QUITE
UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WITH SFC BASED CAPES 2500-3500J/KG ATTM ALTHOUGH
AFOREMENTIONED CAP STILL STRONG IN SOUTH AND WEST.  SUPERCELL
DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES EARLY THIS EVENING THEN
LINEAR CONVECTION ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY TONIGHT.  EXPECT TSTMS MORE
WIDESPREAD TONIGHT WITH FROPA AND INCREASING LLVL JET.

TSTM TO END BY 12Z AS FRONT EXITS THE CWA...AND BOTH SFC AND H85
FRONT EXIT CWA TUESDAY SO ANY ADDITIONAL CONVECTION ALONG BOUNDARY
SHLD BE SOUTHEAST OF CWA.

MODELS LESS IMPRESSIVE WITH CONVECTION IN UPSLOPE FLOW ACROSS THE
HIGH PLAINS TUESDAY NIGHT...WHICH MAY REACH WESTERN CWA AFT
MIDNIGHT.  HAVE MAINTAINED CHCS IN WESTERN COUNTIES ONLY.  TSTMS
CHCS REENTER FCST WED AFTN/EVE WITH APPROACH OF MID LEVEL WAVE.
PATTERN REMAINS ACTIVE THRU SAT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT CHGS MADE THURS
THRU SAT.  DRY CONDITIONS FCST SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH RIDGING AHEAD
OF WEST COAST TROF.

.GID...NONE.

FAY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:14 PM CDT, 6 hours 10 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-101200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
514 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM ALONG THE DRY LINE
OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS ALONG AND WEST
OF A SAINT PAUL TO GRAND ISLAND TO MINDEN TO STOCKTON KANSAS LINE
THROUGH 7 PM. EXPECT HAIL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO...WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

THE THUNDERSTORM AREA WILL SHIFT EAST AND AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF
HIGHWAY 281 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER AFTER 7 PM. THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL START TO DECREASE TOWARD MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN FROM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED OVER ALL OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THIS EVENING
AND TONIGHT.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1002 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0958 PM    8 S ST. PAUL              NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1004 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1002 PM    ST. LIBORY                NE   4.25 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1005 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1002 PM    ST. LIBORY                NE   4.25 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0958 PM    8 S ST. PAUL              NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0955 PM    1 S FULLERTON             NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   NANCE

0953 PM    10 SSE ST. PAUL           NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0932 PM    4 SW FARWELL              NE   1.25 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0926 PM    5 SW FARWELL              NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0919 PM    5 W ST. PAUL              NE   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/09/03   HOWARD

0914 PM    3 E ASHTON                NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0912 PM    11 W LOUP CITY            NE   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

0909 PM    11 W LOUP CITY            NE   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:28 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1028 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1007 PM    CHAPMAN                   NE   1.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   MERRICK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:00 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1100 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1058 PM    BENEDICT                  NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   YORK

KISNER

Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:11 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1111 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1105 PM    5 S PLAINVILLE            KS   65 MPH TSTORM WIND
06/09/03   ROOKS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	44 min
Jun 9, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	60 min
Jun 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	56 min
Jun 9, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	45 min
Jun 9, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	52 min
Jun 9, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003 Every 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.