Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2003, 9:56 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 22, 2003, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 230256 SVRGID KSC089-230400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 956 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 953 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LOVEWELL STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOVEWELL STATE PARK AT 1010 PM CDT... MONTROSE AT 1040 PM CDT... MANKATO AT 1100 PM CDT... PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN JEWELL COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. MONITOR STREAMS IN THE AREA FOR SIGNIFICANT RISES AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF NECESSARY. REMEMBER NEVER TO DRIVE THROUGH ANY FLOODED ROADWAY. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 3960 9797 3996 9844 4000 9794 $$ 10
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 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 56 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED FOR CURRENT FCST BUT TO UP LOWS A BIT OVR NEXT FEW DAYS AND LOWER HIGHS SOMEWHAT THU...OTHERWISE THINKING PRETTY MUCH THE SAME. RIGHT NOW...WATCHING MOISTURE DISCONTINUITY IN FORM OF FINE LINE MOVE EWD OUT OF LBF TERRITORY. THIS WOULD BE LIKELY FIRST INITIATION POINT FOR CONVECTION TODAY...OVR NRN CWA IN VALLEY SHERMAN GREELEY OR HOWARD COUNTIES...POSSIBLY BUILDING SWD SOMEWHAT OVR TIME. LOTS OF JUICE IN THE FORM OF SFC DPTS UPR 60S TO LOW 70S EAST OF LINE...AND WITH SUN STARTING TO BREAK THROUGH GENERATING LOADS OF LL CAPE. SHOULD REACH CONVECTIVE TEMPS ALSO RATHER EASILY...ESPECIALLY NEAR AND S OF I80 CORRIDOR. LL SHEAR QUITE GOOD...HOWEVER MID TO UPR LVLS HAVE SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED. OVERALL...BEST CHC FOR TSRA WILL BE OVR NRN HALF OF CWA ALONG DEV WARM FRONT...WITH BEST CHC FOR SEVERE N OF I80 AND E OF HIGHWAY 281. STRONG OR ISOLATED SEVERE CANNOT BE RULED OUT OVR REST OF CWA...HOWEVER MUCH MORE STABLE CONDITIONS ENCROACHING UPON SWRN PORTION OF CWA. FOR NOW KEEPING WITH SCATTERED MENTION...40 POPS NE...30S EVERYWHERE ELSE BUT SWRN CWA WITH 20 POPS. FOR MON...CONTINUES TO LOOK QUITE HOT AND FAIRLY MOIST...HOWEVER MUCH TOO CAPPED OVR MOST OF OUR CWA...WITH INSTABILITY AXIS PUSHING FURTHER TO THE EAST. LEFT SMALL 20 POPS E AND NE CWA FOR AFT/EVE PERIOD FOR POINTS IN NERN ZONES...ESPECIALLY WITH LEFT OVR CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY(S) HAVING THE CHANCE TO PUSH INTO THIS AREA. HOWEVER...NOT MUCH OF CHANCE REALLY. BEYOND...NO REAL CHANGES EXCEPT ABOVE MENTIONED LOWERING OF TEMPS A BIT MORE THU BEHIND FRONT AS RELATIVELY COOL DRY AIR MOVES BACK FOR A DAY OR SO. .GID...NONE. 10
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 2:55 PM CDT, 7 hours 1 minute before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-231200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 255 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. IT APPEARS THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF A GOTHENBURG TO RED CLOUD TO MANKATO KANSAS LINE. THIS WOULD INCLUDE THE TRI CITIES AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME MORE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS MORNING CLOUDS GAVE WAY TO INCREASED SUNSHINE. STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS CONTINUE TO TRANSPORT AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE REGION. IN ADDITION...A COLD FRONT THAT WAS LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF AINSWORTH TO NEAR GOTHENBURG AND THEN SOUTH THROUGH MCCOOK SHOULD PUSH SLOWLY EASTWARD. OTHER BOUNDARIES THAT WERE PRODUCED FROM THUNDERSTORMS LAST NIGHT AND THIS MORNING WILL ALSO HELP TO INITIATE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ONE BOUNDARY WAS LOCATED NORTH OF FULLERTON AND ORD... WHILE ANOTHER WAS JUST WEST OF YORK AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO CONCORDIA KANSAS. IN ADDITION...WIND SHEAR PARAMETERS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR GENERATING SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION. THE COMBINATION OF ALL THESE FACTORS POINT TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH SOME STORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY EXTREMELY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE...AS ARE ISOLATED TORNADOES. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FOR PARTS OF THE AREA WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID WEEK WITH ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON OR EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. EWALD
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:15 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
915 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0906 PM STRANG NE FLOOD
06/22/03 FILLMORE DEEP WATER ON HIGHWAY
THROUGH STANG.Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:32 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
932 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 PM FULLERTON NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/22/03 NANCE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:41 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
941 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0920 PM EDGAR NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/03 CLAY TREE LIMBS DOWN.Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:47 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
947 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0729 PM DESHLER NE TORNADO
06/22/03 THAYER CONSIDERABLE STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE. TREES DOWN AND
ELECTRICITY OUT. DEBRIS
IN THE AIR. INJURIES
REPORTED.Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:49 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
949 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM 3 N BRADSHAW NE TORNADO
06/22/03 YORK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 22, 9:50 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
950 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0935 PM 1/2 S FULLERTON NE TORNADO
06/22/03 NANCE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 11:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Jewell | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 12:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 25 min |
| Jun 23, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 1:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 1:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 64 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.