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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Hastings, NE

May 13, 2003Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2003, 4:22 AM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 13, 2003, 4:22 AM CDT (09:22 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2003, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:25 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

149 
WUUS53 KGID 130922
SVRGID
KSC163-131000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
422 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT

* AT 420 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CODELL...OR ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTH OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODSTON AT 430 AM CDT

PEOPLE IN CENTRAL ROOKS 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.

LAT...LON 3951 9956 3917 9954 3915 9910 3947 9910
$$
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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 13, 2:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
226 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003

LATEST WV SATL PIX REVEALING POTENT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM STATIONED OFF
THE WEST COAST INVOF RUSH OF PACIFIC SUB-TROPICAL MOISTURE INTO THE
SOUTHWESTERN CONUS. ACROSS THE PLAINS...MODEST RIDGING WAS IN
PLACE. AT THE SURFACE...UNORGANIZED HIGH PRESSURE COVERED THE MID
SECTION OF THE COUNTRY. SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE WAS CONFINED TO THE
SOUTHERN GULF STATES PER LATEST PRECIP WATER PLOT.

LATEST SWODY1 FROM SPC KEEPS OUR CWA IN A SLGT RISK FOR SEVERE
WEATHER THRU 12Z/14 AS THE LATEST MODELS ADVERTISE A POTENT SHORT
WAVE TO PASS THROUGH THE DAKOTAS LATER THIS AFTER/EVENING...PROMPTING
SURFACE LOW PRESSURE TO DEEPEN INVOF SW SD/NW NEB...WITH DEVELOPING
SURFACE WARM FRONT ACROSS THE SD/NEB BORDER AND ASSOCIATED COLD
FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHWEST ALONG THE HIGH PLAINS. SOUTHERLY FLOW IS
EXPECTED TO ADVECT MOISTURE NORTHWARD INTO THE PLAINS THROUGH THE
DAY AS PER MODEL BLYR MOISTURE TRANSPORT VECTORS. LATER THIS
AFTERNOON...THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SWING THROUGH NEB WITH
UNORGANIZED CONVECTION FIRING BY LATE AFTERNOON. STEEP 700MB-500MB
LAPSE RATES SUGGEST LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS MAIN THREAT.

THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT OVER THE PLAINS WITH
LEFT OVER SHOWERS FRIDAY MORNING. MODELS DEPICT ANOTHER POTENT SHORT
WAVE...BUT SHOW IT PASSING QUITE SOUTH OF THE AREA. SLGT POPS
PROBABLY MOST REASONABLE FOR NOW.

OTHERWISE...DRY THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH MORE POPS DAY 7 AS MODELS
ADVERTISE A STALLED BOUNDARY ACROSS THE REGION.

.GID...NONE.

DEE
Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 12:00 PM CDT, 16 hours 22 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-131200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1200 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS OR PERHAPS A THUNDERSTORM ARE POSSIBLE
AFTER 300 AM IN THE MORNING...MAINLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...IN
RESPONSE TO A DEVELOPING LOW LEVEL JET LATER TONIGHT...AND PASSING
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. HOWEVER NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED
WITH ANY OF THIS ACTIVITY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING...AS BOTH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND SURFACE
FRONT ROLL THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 5:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks29 min
May 13, 5:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks52 min
May 13, 5:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Smith47 min
May 13, 6:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Smith45 min

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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.