Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2003, 12:55 AM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 23, 2003, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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 |
| Jun 22, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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 230555 SVRGID KSC089-230700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1254 AM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 1253 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BURR OAK...OR ABOUT 44 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY AT 100 AM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN JEWELL COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS LIKELY. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS INDICATED NEAR MONTROSE AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. LAT...LON 3996 9851 3983 9834 4000 9811 4014 9829 $$ 9 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 Jun 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 10 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:00 PM CDT, 10 hours 55 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, 10 hours 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, 10:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1047 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0955 PM HEBRON NE FLOOD
06/22/03 THAYER REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. FLOODING NORTH
AND WEST OF HEBRON ON
HIGHWAY 81 AND 136.
CARS STALLED IN WATER.Local storm report, Jun 22, 10:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1052 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM DESHLER NE FLOOD
06/22/03 THAYER REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. ROAD FLOODING
WEST OF DESHLER.
1030 PM DESHLER NE TORNADO
06/22/03 THAYER REPORTED BY FIRE AND
RESCUE. 2 CONFIRMED
INJURIES WITH EARLIER
STORM WEST OF DESHLER.Local storm report, Jun 22, 10:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1058 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM 4 NW LOVEWELL KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/03 JEWELL REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
14 DEGREE TEMPERATURE
DROP IN 5 MINUTES.Local storm report, Jun 22, 11:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1101 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM ONG NE 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/03 CLAY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
LARGE TREES UPROOTED.
1050 PM EDGAR NE 60+ MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/03 CLAY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
EIGHT INCH BRANCHES
BROKEN.Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1149 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 NEZ062>064-076-077-086-087-230545- CLAY-FILLMORE-HALL-HAMILTON-NUCKOLLS-THAYER-YORK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GRAND ISLAND...SUPERIOR...YORK 1149 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 564 HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 565... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. THE THREAT OF TORNADOS HAVE DIMINISHED...HOWEVER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH 5 AM. NEZ040-041-047>049-230545- GREELEY-HOWARD-MERRICK-NANCE-POLK- 1149 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 564 HAS BEEN CANCELED... THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT HAS BEEN CANCELED. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONCENTRATED SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FAY
Local storm report, Jun 23, 12:14 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1214 AM CDT MON JUN 23 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1213 AM MANKATO KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/03 JEWELL 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, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 64 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, 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
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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.