Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 3:36 AM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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
- May 8, 2003, 3:36 AM CDT (08:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WUUS53 KGID 080836 SVRGID KSC147-163-080915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 335 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 326 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF WEBSTER STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPEED AT 340 AM CDT GLADE AT 345 AM CDT PHILLIPSBURG AT 350 AM CDT KIRWIN AT 355 AM CDT AGRA AT 405 AM CDT PEOPLE IN SOUTHER PHILLIPS AND NORTHERN ROOKS COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES. LAT...LON 3950 9962 3934 9951 3960 9904 3998 9912 $$ KISNER NNNN
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 May 8, 1:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 130 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 FOCUS IS ON THUNDERSTORMS EVENING UPPER AIR ANALYSIS INDICATED FLOW HAD BACKED SOUTHWEST WITH BROAD UPPER TROF FM SASKATCHEWAN TO NR BAJA. DISTINCT CIRCULATIONS EVIDENT ON WATER VAPOR ALONG MT/SASKATCHEWAN BORDER...SOUTHERN NEVADA AND SOUTHERN WY. A LEAD SHORTWAVE WAS LIFTING NORTH THRU NEB WITH TSTMS ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA. H85 PLOT INDICATED ABUNDANT MOISTURE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WITH H85 DPS OF 15C. LATEST H85 PROFILE PLOT SHOWS LLVL HAS INCREASED TO 50KTS ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHERN KANSAS. EXPECT TSTMS TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP/SPREAD EAST EARLY THIS MORNING WITH EASTWARD PROGRESSION OF WAVE...INCREASING MOISTURE...AHEAD OF SFC/MID LEVEL FRONTAL BOUNDARY FROM CENTRAL CO THRU WESTERN AND SOUTHERN KANSAS. TSTMS TO CONTINUE THIS MORNING AS STRONGER WAVE LIFTS FM SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND SFC WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH THRU CENTRAL KS BY 18Z AND THE NEB/KS BORDER AROUND 00Z FRI. DISTINCT DRY LINE PUSHES EAST ACROSS KS DURING THE AFTN. SVR POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR CWA TODAY WITH HAIL PRIMARY HAZARD EARLY THIS MORNING FM ELEVATED CONVECTION...AND THEN AGAIN THIS AFTN/EVE AHEAD OF WARM FNT/DRY LINE. POTENTIAL FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN AND LATEST DY1 STILL OUTLINES SE CWA IN MOD RISK...WITH SLGHT RISK FOR REMAINDER OF CWA. TSTM CHCS DIMINISH LATER TONIGHT AS SFC LOW AND UPPER SYSTEM LIFT NORTH THRU IA. FRIDAY WILL SEE A BREAK BETWEEN SYSTEMS...THEN TIMING OF APPROACHING UPPER TROF THIS WEEKEND STILL IN QUESTION WITH GFS QUICKER THAN ETA. GFS SUGGESTS TSTM DEVELOPMENT NORTH OF WARM FNT POSITIONED ACROSS NORTHERN KS FRIDAY NIGHT AS LLVL JET INCREASES TO 40-50KTS. ATTM WILL MAINTAIN TSTM CHCS BUT ADJUST TIMING TO AFTER MIDNIGHT. UPPER TROF CROSSES THE PLAINS SATURDAY WITH PCPN CHCS CONTINUING...THEN SYSTEM DEPARTS SATURDAY NIGHT. AM NOT PLANNING SIGNIFICANT CHGS TO EXTENDED ATTM...BUT TIMING OF UPPER TROF NEXT WEEK (WED) STILL IN QUESTION WITH GFS THE FASTEST...UKMO SIMILAR...BUT ENSEMBLE AND ECMWF KEEP SYSTEM OFF THE WEST COAST. .GID...NONE. FAY
Hazardous weather outlook, May 7, 11:30 AM CDT, 16 hours 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 1130 AM CDT WED MAY 7 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 DEVELOP LATER THIS EVENING ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS...AND MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. DUE TO THE ELEVATED NATURE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HOWEVER...THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE FROM HAIL...AND AS MOISTURE IS LACKING...MOST SHOULD BE LIMITED TO PENNY SIZE OR LESS. . .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...AS A STRONG SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES INTO CENTRAL KANSAS... AT THE SAME TIME A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE EJECTS EAST OF THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND OVER NORTHERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS WILL ALLOW A WARM FRONT TO LIFT NORTH INTO SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA BY THURSDAY EVENING...WHILE A DRY LINE PUSHES EAST THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS. STRONG STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED THURSDAY MORNING...WITH A BETTER CHANCE FOR A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY EVENING...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. SOME LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL REMAIN THE MAIN HAZARD... WITH AN ISOLATED TORNADO POSSIBLE EARLY THURSDAY EVENING. THEN THE NEXT CHANCE FOR THUNDER WILL OCCUR LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...AS YET ANOTHER POTENT STORM SYSTEM MOVES NEAR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVING THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. LESS ACTIVE WEATHER IS FORECAST SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT...BUT WILL MORE LIKELY BE REQUIRED THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS THROUGH SATURDAY. 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 50 min |
| May 8, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 63 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.