Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2003, 11:01 PM CDT for Adams County, Franklin County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 19, 2003, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Kearney County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 200401 SVRGID NEC001-061-099-200500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1100 PM CDT TUE AUG 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER UPLAND...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CAMPBELL AT 1105 PM CDT... NORMAN AT 1115 PM CDT... HOLSTEIN AT 1120 PM CDT... ROSELAND AT 1125 PM CDT... KENESAW AT 1130 PM CDT... ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT UPLAND WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN WESTERN ADAMS...SOUTHERN KEARNEY AND NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. LAT...LON 4040 9911 4019 9891 4046 9835 4086 9839 $$ NNNN MORITZ
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.