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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2003, 11:35 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2003, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2003, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 3731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 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
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 17.1
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 Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 225 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2003 MAIN FOCUS IS ON TSTMS TONIGHT VISIBLE SATELLITE AND LATEST SFC CHART INDICATE A COUPLE OF DISTINCT BOUNDARIES ACROSS NEB...ONE LOCATED FROM MCK TO LXN...TO SOUTH OF GRI...TO OMA. ANOTHER BOUNDARY FURTHER NORTH FM MHN TO ONL TO SUX. MOISTURE HAS POOLED ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY WITH DPS IN THE LOW 70S FM GRI TO OMA. SHRA ACTIVITY HAS LINGERED THROUGHOUT THE DAY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LBF TO OFK LINE WITH WEAK WAVE CROSSING THRU NORTHERN NEB/SOUTHERN SD. LAPS DATA INDICATE HIGH INSTABILITY ALONG BOUNDARY ACROSS THE CWA WITH SFC BASED CAPES 3500-4500 J/KG WITH WEAKENING CIN. 18Z SOUNDINGS STILL INDICATE DECENT CAP. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR TRENDS...BUT EXPECT TSTMS TO DEVELOP ALONG BOUNDARY...WITH LIFT ENHANCED LATER TONIGHT WITH APPROACHING MID LEVEL WAVE CURENTLY LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN WY/NORTHERN CO...AND INCREASING LLVL JET TO 40KTS TONIGHT. LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF BOUNDARY STAND BEST CHCS FOR TSTMS. SVR STORMS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH STEEP LAPSE RATES AND HIGH INSTABILITY...AND LATEST SPC DY1 OUTLOOK HAS DOWNGRADED RISK TONIGHT FROM MODERATE TO SLIGHT DUE TO NOT AS STRONG WIND/SHEAR PROFILES. PRIMARY HAZARD FM STORMS IS WIND/HAIL. CONVECTION MAY LINGER ACROSS EASTERN ZONES TUESDAY MORNING UNTIL MID LEVEL TROF AXIS PASSES TO THE EAST. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE ALONG STALLED BOUNDARY AND RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...WITH CHCS CONTINUING TUES NIGHT NORTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES WITH CONVECTION ACROSS SD/NORTHERN NEB AND PROGRESSING SE OVERNIGHT. ON WEDNESDAY...MODELS DIVERGE ON SFC BOUNDARY POSITION AND STRENGTH OF MID LEVEL WAVES. GFS PUSHES A COLD FRONT INTO CWA IN THE AFTN WHILE ETA HAS BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH. HAVE MENTIONED LOW POPS IN AFTN IN NORTHERN CWA WITH EVEN ETA KAIN FRITSCH HINTING AT THE POSSIBILITY. REFINEMENTS MADE TO THE EXTENDED AS LATEST MODELS AND ENSEMBLES TRENDING TOWARD RIDGE AXIS ORIENTATION ACROSS THE ROCKIES RATHER THAN THE CENTRAL PLAINS...PLACING OUR CWA IN NORTHWEST FLOW EARLY INTO THE WEEKEND. RIDGE AXIS GRADUALLY SHIFTS EAST ONTO PLAINS SUN/MON. AS A RESULT...TEMPS WILL BE SLOWER TO WARM AND HAVE COOLED TEMPS FRI/SAT...WITH WARMING TREND SUN/MON. NORTHWEST FLOW REGIME AND WEAKER CAP THAN PREVIOUSLY INDICATED MAY WARRANT TSTM CHCS AT SOME POINT. HAVE MAINTAINED DRY FORECAST FOR NOW AND LATER SHIFTS CAN REEVALUATE POTENTIAL FOR THIS. .GID...NONE. FAY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 10:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-081200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1029 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS...ONGOING ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS...WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT. THE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA THIS EVENING...AND THIS THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. A VERY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT REMAINS IN PLACE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AS RICH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS POOLED ALONG AN EAST TO WEST ORIENTED FRONTAL BOUNDARY ROUGHLY ALONG INTERSTATE 80. VERY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS TO 80 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN PLACE OVERNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS A POSSIBILITY AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER TUESDAY MORNING ROUGHLY EAST OF A LINE FROM ORD TO SMITH CENTER. THE STALLED FRONT WILL AGAIN BE THE FOCUS FOR POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. DRY WEATHER IS THEN FORECAST THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY OVERNIGHT. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND COUNTY SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION AS STORMS MOVE IN FROM THE WEST. GUYER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:34 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 57 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.