Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 2003, 8:58 PM CDT for Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 9, 2003, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sherman County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KGID 100158
SVRGID
NEC163-100300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
857 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SHERMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
* AT 853 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
PENNY SIZE HAIL 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAZARD...OR ABOUT 21 MILES
NORTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE...
HAZARD...
ROCKVILLE...
LOUP CITY...
PEOPLE IN SHERMAN COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
LAT...LON 4128 9875 4105 9876 4105 9919 4138 9919
4139 9893 4139 9874
$$
NNNNWhat 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 Sep 9, 1:06 PM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 1:06 PM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 106 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2003 STRONG SUBSIDENCE IN WAKE OF EJECTING LEAD TROUGH THIS AFTN CLRG THINGS OUT FOR A TIME BUT REDVLPG SC WITHIN MOIST BL TOUGH TO SHAKE. HWVR ENSUING DESTABILIZATION INVOF SFC FNTL ZONE OVR NW KS/SW NE UNDERNEATH STEEP EML WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY FOR INCIPIENT SVR CONVN INITIATION POSSIBILITY THIS EVE. PROBLEMS THIS FCST CYCLE ARE NAMELY GROWING RAIN POTENTIAL AND SVR THREAT WED AND TEMPS. MODEL SOLUTIONS VRY CONSISTENT W/UPCOMING EVOLUTION AND EJECTION OF DYNAMIC WRN TROUGH. DETAILS ACCENTUATED BY MULTIPLE SW/S ACTING ON GOOD LL MSTR PLUME IN PLACE AND ATTENDANT NRLY STATIONARY FNTL ZONE. XPC RENEWED CONV DVLPMNT TO TAKE PLACE LT THIS AFTN/EVE INVOF OF LEE SIDE TROF AND ALG NOSE OF RESURGING LLJ AS NXT INTENSE UPSTREAM SW OVR NE AZ EJECTS OUT...SIMILAR TO OVERNIGHT DVLPMNT. HWVR SVR THREAT MINIMIZED GIVEN PROGGED TIMING. ON WED...WRN TROF EDGES EVER CLOSER W/SFC BNDRY REMAINING NRLY STATIONARY. RENEWED SFC DVLPMNT XPCD AGAIN BY AFTN ALG SFC BNDRY AS YET ANOTHER SW TROF KICKS OUT. SVR THREAT MUCH BTR WED AFTN/EVE BUT CONTINGENT UPON LOSS OF MORNING CLD DEBRIS AND SUFFICIENT AFTN DESTABILIZATION W/SHEAR PROFILES ABUNDANTLY FVRBL...COULD BE SIGNIFICANT IF THINGS PAN OUT. QPF SOLUTIONS ARE OPTIMISTIC AND RIGHTLY SO BUT SHLD POSE LTL PROBLEM GIVEN ANTECEDENT BONE DRY SOIL MSTR CONDITIONS. STILL A SHOWER RISK ON THU INVOF OF UPPER LOW AND MAY NEED SOME EXTENSION TO POPS THEN BUT CLRG OUT AFT THAT ON FRI. WELCOME RAINFALL TO SAY THE LEAST... SHLD BE BEST RAINFALL AROUND HERE SINCE MID MAY FOR MOST. OTHERWISE...TEMPS A TOSS W/IMPENDING RAINFALL AND EXTENSIVE CLD CVR. BEST RECOURSE IT SEEMS AT THIS POINT IS TO HEDGE COOLER W/GUIDANCE SPREADS NR 10 DEGREES WED/THU. BEYOND THAT...COOL WX TO STICK ARND INTO NXT WEEK W/RESIDUAL MEAN TROUGH CNTRL US AND MASSIVE CANUCK SFC RIDGE BLDG SWD. .GID...NONE. T
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 9, 5:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-101200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED TYPO AT THE END NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 508 PM CDT TUE SEP 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN A TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE COMBINATION OF SEVERAL WEATHER FEATURES WILL ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL TONIGHT. A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL STRETCH ACROSS THE AREA. STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PUMP LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE REGION...AS SEEN BY SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S. MODERATE INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR ALOFT WILL ALSO AID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE REGION ALONG A LINE FROM STOCKTON KANSAS TO NEAR KEARNEY NEBRASKA...THEN TO ABOUT COLUMBUS... WILL BE THE MOST FAVORED AREA FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID EVENING. ONCE THIS ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS PASSES...MORE DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE TOWARD DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE ENHANCED FURTHER WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT ADVANCE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA. A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WITH WIND AND HAIL THE PRIMARY HAZARD...ALTHOUGH WIND SHEAR PROFILES MAY SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY...HOWEVER THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT DIMINISHES BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. DRY AND RATHER COOL WEATHER IS FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND EARLY INTO NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...AND SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT IF SEVERE APPROACHES THEIR AREA. 10/FAY/MORITZ
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 9, 7:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
755 PM CDT TUE SEP 09 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0645 PM 13 N FUNK NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
09/09/03 PHELPS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Sep 9, 7:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
755 PM CDT TUE SEP 09 2003
CORRECTED FOR TIME
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM 13 N FUNK NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
09/09/03 PHELPS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Sep 9, 8:58 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
858 PM CDT TUE SEP 09 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0855 PM 6 W RAVENNA NE .75 INCH HAIL
09/09/03 BUFFALO REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps | 53 min |
| Sep 9, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 38 min |
| Sep 10, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 47 min |
| Sep 10, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls | 49 min |
| Sep 10, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 42 min |
| Sep 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman | 55 min |
| Sep 10, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 63 min |
| Sep 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 61 min |
| Sep 10, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 34 min |
| Sep 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 58 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.