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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Hastings, NE

March 27, 2004Adams County, Hall County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2004, 2:14 PM CST for Adams County, Hall County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 27, 2004, 2:14 PM CST (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2004, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Adams County, NE, Hall County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGID 272014
SVRGID
NEC001-079-099-272100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
213 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  HALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 300 PM CST

* AT 208 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES      
  NORTHWEST OF PROSSER TO HEARTWELL TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF              
  NORMAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO      
  HOLSTEIN...KENESAW...JUNIATA...WOOD RIVER...DONIPHAN AND ALDA.

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN KENESAW SHORTLY AFTER
2 PM. 

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4072 9867 4053 9893 4035 9885 4061 9836
          4095 9850

$$

NOAA/NWS/MORITZ

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 Mar 27, 2:10 PM CST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 2:10 PM CST, 4 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
210 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

.SHORT TERM...WELL ORGANIZED SHORTWAVE MOVING THROUGH THE REGION AS
I WRITE THIS. HAVE SEEN WIDESPREAD CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND
MARGINAL EVENTS WITH NUMEROUS PEA SIZED TO DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTS.
COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY MARCH THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE REMAINDER
OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS.  SPC ISSUED A WATCH
EARLIER THROUGH 5 PM TONIGHT AND LIKELY WILL SEE THIS EXPIRE AT THAT
TIME.  THIS SYSTEM SETS THE STAGE FOR A RATHER COOL PERIOD AS THE
TROF INTENSIFIES OVER THE GREAT LAKES WITH WEAK RIDGING OVER THE
SOUTHWEST U.S.

.LONG TERM...TIMING OF WAVES AND FEATURES PROBLEMATIC. BOTTOM LINE
WE DONT REALLY GET INTO WARM AIR FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS AND HAVE
LOWERED TEMPERATURES 5 TO 7 DEGREES.

OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE ANOTHER SHORTWAVE FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE
WEEK AND INTO NEXT WEEKEND. THIS WILL LIKELY BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF
CONVECTION.

&&

.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.NE...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THROUGH 5 PM CST FOR THE SOUTHERN
TWO TIERS OF COUNTIES...PHELPS TO FILMORE AND FURNAS TO THAYER.
.KS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THROUGH 5 PM CST FOR SIX COUNTIES IN
KANSAS...PHELPS TO JEWELL AND ROOKS TO MITCHELL.

&&

LEWIS

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 27, 11:12 AM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1112 AM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-281200-
ADAMS-BUFFALO-CLAY-DAWSON-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-FURNAS-GOSPER-GREELEY-
HALL-HAMILTON-HARLAN-HOWARD-JEWELL-KEARNEY-MERRICK-MITCHELL-NANCE-
NUCKOLLS-OSBORNE-PHELPS-PHILLIPS-POLK-ROOKS-SHERMAN-SMITH-THAYER-
VALLEY-WEBSTER-YORK-
1112 AM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE IN RESPONSE TO A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT
MOVING INTO THE AREA.

WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE STRONG OR BRIEFLY SEVERE. THE MAIN HAZARDS ARE
HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS FORECAST TO SLIDE EAST OF
THE REGION BY EARLY EVENING...THUS ENDING ANY POTENTIAL SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

NOAA/NWS/MORITZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 27, 12:59 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1259 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1246 PM     HAIL             PALCO                   39.25N 99.56W
03/27/2004  0.75 INCH        ROOKS              KS   PUBLIC

&&

MORITZ

Local storm report, Mar 27, 1:24 PM CST, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
124 PM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0100 PM     HAIL             PLEASANTON              40.97N 99.09W
03/27/2004  0.88 INCH        BUFFALO            NE   PUBLIC

&&

MORITZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 3:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	65 min
Mar 27, 10:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	51 min
Mar 27, 11:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan, Phelps	43 min
Mar 27, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	41 min
Mar 27, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	59 min
Mar 27, 1:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	47 min
Mar 27, 1:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	39 min
Mar 27, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	51 min
Mar 27, 3:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Hamilton, York	66 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.