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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
- 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
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 $$ 16 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 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. 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 29 min |
| May 13, 5:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 52 min |
| May 13, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 47 min |
| May 13, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 45 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.