Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2003, 5:58 AM CDT for Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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, 5:58 AM CDT (10:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:59 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
676 WUUS53 KGID 131058 SVRGID KSC141-183-131145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 558 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SMITH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 645 AM CDT * AT 554 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF CEDAR...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ATHOL AT 605 AM CDT HARLAN AT 610 AM CDT PORTIS AT 615 AM CDT SMITH CENTER AT 625 AM CDT DOWNS AT 625 AM CDT PEOPLE IN SMITH AND OSBORNE 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 3993 9903 3918 9896 3917 9852 3998 9855 $$ 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, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 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 13, 5:00 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 500 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 4 PM ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE ORGANIZED THIS EVENING...WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO CROSS THROUGH NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MORE UNSTABLE DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING AND SOUTHERLY WINDS PULLING GULF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION. THIS WILL ALLOW A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS ANTICIPATED FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. DEE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 13, 4:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
430 PM CDT THU MAY 13 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0428 AM PLAINVILLE KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/13/03 ROOKS PUBLIC REPORTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 38 min |
| 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, 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.