Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 2:27 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
069 WUUS53 KGID 081927 SVRGID KSC089-123-082030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 227 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 223 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLEN ELDER...OR ABOUT 34 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BELOIT AT 240 PM CDT IONIA AT 255 PM CDT SCOTTSVILLE AT 300 PM CDT RANDALL AT 310 PM CDT ESBON AT 315 PM CDT PEOPLE IN JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 3924 9846 3922 9795 4000 9792 3999 9847 $$ NNNN EWALD
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, 1:55 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:55 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 155 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 1ST PD SVR TSRA IS THE PROBLEM OF THE DAY WITH A TOR THREAT FOR THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA THRU THIS EVE. WL WATCH MAGNITUDE OF DIFFERENTIAL HEATING/DPS...RESULTING INSTABILITY NR THE WARM FRONT PUSHING INTO NCNTR KS THIS AFTN IN ADVN OF VORT MAX MOVG ACRS CO THIS AFTN. TREND WL DICTATE THE FORECAST...AND IT LKS LIKE A FAIRLY QUICK SHOT FOR GID THIS EVE...ALTHOUGH VARIOUS AVN/ETA PARAMETERS ARE POINTING TO A RATHER MEAN TANTRUM. 70S ON FRI UNDR SHRTWV RIDGE LK OK FOLLOWED BY NXT TROF ON FRI NGT AND SAT. ETA WRAPS SOME DRIER AIR INTO THIS SYS AS MAIN LOW TRACK IS ACRS THE NRN PLNS...LEAVING LITTLE FOR THE TRAILING VORT MAX TO WORK WITH IN THE PCPN DEPT. MEANWHILE...AVN MAINTAINS THE MSTR WITH THE STRNGR VORT MAX SOLN. PRUDENCE DICTATES PERSISTANCE OF CHC NMBRS UNTIL THE TREND IS BTR DEFINED...ALTHOUGH RETREAT ON QPF MAY BE IN ORDER. SYS LKS TO BE FAR ENUF E TO MAINTAIN A DRY SUN AS WELL. WL BOOT EARLY WEEK HIGH TEMPS UP A CLICK OR TWO UNDR RIDGE. TIMING FOR WED PCPN CHC STILL LKS OK...FOLLOWED BY A DRY DAY 7. WL LEAN WARM FOR THU GIVEN OP RUN OF THE GFS IS ON THE LOW SIDE OF THE ENSEMBLES. .GID...NONE. 09
Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 2:00 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-091200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. LOW PRESSURE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP NORTHEAST INTO NORTHERN KANSAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY LATE AFTERNOON EARLY EVENING TIMEFRAME...DRAGGING A WARM FRONT NORTH THROUGH EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AT THE SAME TIME...A DRY LINE WILL PUSH EAST THROUGH WESTERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS...TO NEAR THE SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BORDER HELPING TO FIRE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING. THERE IS A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE ENTIRE AREA...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARD...ALTHOUGH THE POTENTIAL FOR TORNADOES ALSO EXISTS...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE A BREAK IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY...AND THEN THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME PERIOD. DRY WEATHER IS FORECAST SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... WITH THUNDERSTORMS FORECAST AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION. 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 39 min |
| May 8, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 50 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 55 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.