Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2003, 6:47 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 16, 2003, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 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), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 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 12:00Z, 11.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
482 WUUS53 KGID 162347 SVRGID KSC089-170045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 647 PM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 638 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BURR OAK...OR ABOUT 41 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF MANKATO AT 655 PM CDT... WEBBER... AND LOVEWELL STATE PARK AT 740 PM CDT... LAT...LON 3991 9846 3974 9837 3985 9789 4008 9800 $$ T
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 16, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 306 PM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 CHANCES FOR PRECIP TONIGHT...TOMORROW NIGHT AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY AND THEN TEMPS ARE CONCERNS FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE. WEAK WAVES COMING OVER RIDGE WILL BRING CHANCES FOR PRECIP THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FIRST WILL BE TONIGHT. EXPECT A FEW STORM TO DEVELOP TO THE NORTH...THEN MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST. BEST CHANCES WILL BE IN THE NORTH AND EASTERN SECTIONS. OTHERWISE TONIGHT WILL BE CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY. MODELS SOMEWHAT HAVING HARD TIME PICKING OUT WHERE SURFACE LOW/BOUNDARY TO SET UP. EXPECT IT TO SET UP IN THE AREA TOMORROW BUT WITH GOOD CAPPING IN PLACE...CHANCES FOR STORMS WILL HOLD OFF UNTIL EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. ANOTHER HOT DAY EXPECTED THURSDAY WITH TEMPS IN THE UPPER 90S TO 103. UPPER RIDGE HOLDS TIGHT UNTIL NEXT SIGNIFICANT WAVE MOVES INTO CENTRAL CANADA DURING THE WEEKEND. THIS ALLOWS RIDGE TO SLIDE BACK TO THE WEST AND THE WAVE WILL HEAD SOUTHEAST. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER SMALL CHANCE FOR STORMS TO THE AREA ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. WITH UPPER RIDGE OVER THE AREA TEMPS TO REMAIN WARM TO HOT. SOME COOLING IN THE NORTHEASTERN ZONES AS SURFACE BOUNDARY SETS UP. BUT TEMPS TO STILL BE IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S IN THAT AREA. WITH READINGS FROM 95 TO 100 CONTINUING TO THE SOUTH. DRY CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL FOR THE START OF THE WEEK. .GID...NONE. KISNER
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 11:07 AM CDT, 7 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-171200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1107 AM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SLIGHT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THIS EVENING MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80... AND OVERNIGHT EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST ACROSS NEBRASKA WILL CAUSE THE STORMS TO DEVELOP. THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST...AND A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ALTHOUGH AN OVERALL HOT AND DRY PATTERN CONTINUES THROUGH THE WEEK... INTERMITTENT SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE. THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL BECOME MORE ACTIVE OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE SHIFTS TO THE WEST. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM THE HEAT...AND SLIGHTLY INCREASED CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG OR SEVERE THIS WEEKEND...ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DRY WEATHER IS FORECAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. FAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 44 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.