Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 278, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2003, 8:32 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
- Sep 10, 2003, 8:32 PM CDT (01:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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.
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 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 10, 8:27 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 8:27 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
827 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
BASED OFF OF LATEST RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS OF 2-3 INCH RAINFALL
AMOUNTS ALREADY PRESENT OVER YORK...CLAY...FILLMORE...NUCKOLLS AND
THAYER COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA AS WELL AS SMITH...JEWELL...OSBORNE AND
MITCHELL COUNTIES IN KANSAS...WENT AHEAD AND ISSUED FLOOD WATCH
UNTIL 6 AM. UPDATED FORECAST TO MENTION NEW SEVERE WATCH AS WELL.
NO OTHER CHANGES MADE AT THIS TIME.
.GID...FLOOD WATCH SOUTHEAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM YORK
TO KENSINGTON.
AWJHazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 7:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-111200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 717 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH TONIGHT. TWO MAIN AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE FIRST LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM CENTRAL CITY IN MERRICK COUNTY NEBRASKA TO PHILLIPSBURG IN PHILLIPS COUNTY KANSAS...WILL CONTINUE TO SLIDE EAST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING WILL REMAIN THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS ALTHOUGH ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE NEXT FEW HOURS. AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING A SECOND LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO EVOLVE OVER THE NORTHWESTERN HALF OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. THIS LINE WILL PUSH RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS BEFORE EXITING THE AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND SOME FLASH FLOODING WILL POSE THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ALONG THE COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY THURSDAY... MAINLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 14...HOWEVER CHANCES DIMINISH BEHIND THE FRONT BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. DRY AND COOL WEATHER IS FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND...BEFORE A SLOW WARMING TREND NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED THROUGH THE EVENING AND EARLY OVERNIGHT HOURS ACROSS ALL OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. AWJ
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 10, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
641 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0635 PM 1 S OSBORNE KS .75 INCH HAIL
09/10/03 OSBORNE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Sep 10, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
643 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0635 PM 1 S OSBORNE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/10/03 OSBORNE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Sep 10, 6:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
655 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0647 PM 2 W WEBBER KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/10/03 JEWELLLocal storm report, Sep 10, 6:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
658 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0652 PM EDGAR NE .88 INCH HAIL
09/10/03 CLAY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Sep 10, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
706 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM 1 W OSBORNE KS .75 INCH HAIL
09/10/03 OSBORNELocal storm report, Sep 10, 8:31 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
831 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM SHICKLEY NE .75 INCH HAIL
09/10/03 FILLMORE
0707 PM 4 N BURR OAK KS 65 MPH TSTM GUST
09/10/03 JEWELL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0724 PM CARLETON NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/10/03 THAYER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Nuckolls | 65 min |
| Sep 10, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 66 min |
| Sep 10, 7:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 55 min |
| Sep 10, 10:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Sherman | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 66 min |
| Sep 10, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 39 min |
| Sep 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 9:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Mitchell | 6 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 42 min |
| Sep 10, 11:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Osborne | 6 hr |
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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.