Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2003, 9:38 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 82 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, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dawson County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 4886 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 7.9
- Supercell composite
- 32.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 240238 SVRGID NEC047-240400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 938 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 935 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF COZAD...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LEXINGTON AT 945 PM CDT... COZAD AT 950 PM CDT... SUMNER AT 1010 PM CDT... PEOPLE IN DAWSON COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 4071 10019 4069 9950 4100 9946 4103 10016 $$ FAY 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 23, 2:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:30 PM CDT, 7 hours 8 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 230 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 ...ANOTHER POSSIBLE CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS... OVERALL...NO CHANGES OTHER THAN MINOR TWEAKS TO CURRENT AS IT CONTINUES TO LOOK GOOD. LOTS OF WARM AIR MOVING OVER TOP TODAY. SOMEWHAT OF ELEVATED MIXED LAYER WESTERN NE...AND SFC ELEVATION AND HEAT...WILL HELP DESTABILIZE AND BLOW CAP WEST. HUGE AMOUNTS OF ENERGY OVR OUR AREA KEEP US IN PRECARIOUS POSITION...IF CAP BLOWS WATCH OUT...IF NOT...HOT AND SWEATY. CAN NOT BELIEVE I AM SAYING THIS...BUT AFTER YESTERDAY I HOPE FOR THE LATTER. ONE BUG IN THE MIX HOWEVER WILL BE 50 TO 60 KT LL JET PUSHING OVERHEAD OVERNIGHT WHICH WILL MAINTAIN CONVECTION TO THE EAST...WITH BEST CHC OVR NRN CWA. RIGHT NOW MAIN BOUNDARY CUTS THROUGH KS PORTION OF CWA...AND CURVES UP THROUGH GOSPER COUNTY...WITH BEST SFC FORCING W AND N OF NORTH PLATTE. WILL PLAY WAIT AND WATCH GAME THROUGH REST OF AFTERNOON WATCHING REGION BETWEEN HDE AND LBF AND POINTS WEST FOR INDICATIONS OF INITIATION. REGION TO SOUTH AND EAST OF THIS...PARTICULARLY KS COUNTIES LIKELY MUCH TOO CAPPED TO BUST EVEN WITH HELP OF CONVERGENT TROUGH. IF IT GOES...HAIL/WIND LIKELY SEVERE BEST BETS...WITH TORNADO CHC...IF ANY...BEST FAR NW QUAD BETWEEN DAWSON AND VALLEY. WILL CONTINUE CHC TO SCHC WORDING FOR THIS EVENING BASED ON SEVERE POTENTIAL. BEYOND TODAY...DECENT CHANCES FOR STORMS THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WITH BEST CHANCES CONTINUING FROM PM TUE THROUGH AM THU. FOCUS FOR BEST PRECIP WILL LAY OVER NRN HALF CWA WHERE SFC FRONT AND UPR SHORTWAVE STRENGTH WILL BE THE BEST. OTHERWISE...COOLING FOR WED AND THU...THEN SLOW WARMING TREND FRI THOUGH MON WITH NEXT WEAK UPR LVL SHORTWAVE THROUGH ON SUNDAY. NOT ENOUGH CONFIDENCE IN TIMING OF THIS WAVE TO PUT CHC IN AT THIS TIME. .GID...FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES TIL 530 PM FOR THAYER AND JEWELL COUNTIES. 10
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 6:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 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 604 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF HIGHWAY 6. SHOULD THESE STORMS DEVELOP...THEY ARE EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL UP TO BASEBALL SIZE...DAMAGING WIND...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. HOWEVER...A COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA IS EXPECTED TO BE THE PRIMARY FOCUS AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL LIMIT INITIAL DEVELOPMENT. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS AGAIN POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP. THIS MAY PROMPT ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EXTREMELY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP AGAIN LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... WITH ANOTHER OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WOULD BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. 9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Polk | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 78 min |
| Jun 23, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 72 min |
| Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 23 min |
| Jun 23, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 62 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.