Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 10:28 PM CDT for Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2003, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Nance County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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 nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 280328 SVRGID NEC125-280415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1027 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1021 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GENOA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE... GENOA AND RURAL EASTERN NANCE COUNTY PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN NANCE COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES ARE LIKELY. LAT...LON 4158 9783 4141 9791 4105 9675 4130 9663 $$ NNNN MORITZ
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 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 250 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 CONVECTION TONIGHT AND THRU THE WEEKEND THE MAIN CONCERN OVERALL PATTERN FEATURED NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS...WITH SEVERAL SUBTLE SHORTWAVES RIPPLING THRU FLOW. LATEST H7 PROFILER DATA INDICATES ONE SUCH WAVE IN EASTERN COLORADO...WITH STRONGER WAVE WHICH ENTERING MT/ND. MODELS HAVE MISSED CONVECTION CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ALONG THE NEB/KS BORDER. CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED IN WEAK CONVERGENT AREA ON NOSE OF MOISTURE AXIS...AND AHEAD OF MID LEVEL WAVE. AFTER THIS INITIAL ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION THIS EVENING...TSTM DEVELOPMENT WILL REFOCUS ALONG COOL FRONTAL BOUNDARY PUSHING SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE DAKOTAS. 18Z SFC CHART SHOWS NIL IN THE WAY OF PRESSURE RISES...HOWEVER FRONT WILL BEGIN TO PUSH SOUTHEAST LATE THIS EVE AS STRONGER WAVE CROSSES THE DAKOTAS. FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE FOCUS FOR TSTMS FROM ROUGHLY 02Z-10Z. AN ISOLATED STORM MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL/WIND THE PRIMARY HAZARD...BUT MOISTURE IS LACKING FOR ANY WIDESPREAD SVR WX. THE COOL FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHIFTS SOUTHEAST TONIGHT...THEN DRY WX FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS EAST. BOUNDARY STALLS TO THE SOUTH DURING THE DAY...THEN BEGINS TO LIFT SATURDAY NIGHT. CONVECTION REDEVELOPS ACROSS THE HIGHS PLAINS...AIDED BY UPSLOPE WINDS AND INCREASING LLVL JET. CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE AND MOVE EAST ACROSS CWA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. ONLY CHG TO FORECAST IS TO REFINE TIMING TO AFTER MIDNIGHT. TSTMS MAY LINGER INTO SUNDAY MORNING...THEN MODELS DIVERGE ON BOUNDARY PLACEMENT AND STRENGTH OF MID LEVEL WAVE BY LATE SUNDAY. HAVE MAINTAINED POPS WITH BEST CHCS ACROSS KS AND SOUTHERN NEB COUNTIES. FORECAST DRIES MONDAY AND THRU THE EXTENDED WITH JET STREAM ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS...AND RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTH. MAX TEMPS SHLD REACH 90S BY THE END OF THE WEEK. .GID...NONE. FAY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-281200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 542 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING...MOST WIDESPREAD ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. THE STORMS HAVE FORMED IN RESPONSE TO A WEAK DISTURBANCE ALOFT AND THE FORMATION OF A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WITH LATE AFTERNOON HEATING. THE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING IS MINIMAL...THANKS IN PART TO SOMEWHAT WEAK WIND SHEAR. HOWEVER...A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS THEY MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. LATER TONIGHT...ATTENTION WILL TURN TO AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 6. A STRONGER DISTURBANCE SLIDE THROUGH REGION BEGINNING AROUND MIDNIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME...A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA. LOW LEVEL WINDS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE WILL INCREASE...THUS SETTING THE STAGE FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AFTER 10 PM. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...WITH HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND LOCALLY STRONG WINDS THE PRIMARY HAZARD. THE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST...AND EVENTUALLY OUT OF THE REGION EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM OVER THE HIGH PLAINS ON SATURDAY AND TRACK ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ON SATURDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERATE SEVERE LEVELS OF HAIL AND WIND GUSTS...MAINLY OVER AREAS WEST OF A KEARNEY TO CONCORDIA LINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH INDIVIDUAL OR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF HAZARDOUS WEATHER APPROACHES. MORITZ
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:33 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
933 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM BRADSHAW NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/27/03 YORK REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0930 PM 6 W BENEDICT NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/27/03 YORK REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
954 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0950 PM YORK NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/27/03 YORK POWER LINES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM GUSTS.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0950 PM WACO NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/27/03 YORK POWER LINES DOWN AND
TREE DAMAGE. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 27, 10:02 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1002 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0936 PM WACO NE 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/27/03 YORK TREE LIMBS DOWNED BY
STRONG WINDS. REPORTED
BY STORM SPOTTER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 56 min |
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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.