Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

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

.PREV DISCUSSION...JUST A QUICK UPDATE TO SITUATION FOR INCREASING
WINDS AND SOME TIMING OF BREAKS/PRECIPITATION TRENDS. SMALL
WINDOW OF NO RAIN CURRENTLY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWFA AND WILL
PROBABLY LAST THIS MORNING. HAVE ATTEMPTED TO ADJUST GRIDS TO
REFLECT THIS LULL THEN INCREASING TREND. WE ALREADY HAVE
ACTIVITY SHIFTING NORTH FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. FURTHER
WEST...SCATTERED CONVECTION ALONG THE FRONT ALREADY INCREASING
DOWN INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS. A FEW OF THESE SO FAR HAVE SHOWN
WILLINGNESS TO BE DECENT STORMS...POSSIBLY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL.
CELL MOVEMENT HAS BEEN RAPIDLY NORTH...BUT ONLY SLOWLY EAST AS
FRONT IS PUSHING SOUTH DOWN THE FRONT RANGE AT THIS TIME. ITS
GOING TO BE AWHILE BEFORE IT WORKS ACROSS THE CWFA...THUS THE
STRONGER SOUTH WINDS TODAY.

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.PREV DISCUSSION...THROUGH SUN NIGHT. INCIPIENT RAIN EVENT AND
CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL INITIAL FCST CHALLENGE. EJECTING LEAD PIECE OF
INTENSE LARGE SCALE SW TROUGH OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST COMING
INTO SW KS ATTM W/RAPID INTENSIFICATION OF CONV CLUSTER FROM
STOCKTON DOWN TO GREAT BEND IN KS. LLJ CONTS TO RAMP IN ASSOCN/W LG
SCALE HGT FALLS SPREADING OUT INTO THE PLAINS AND UPR SPEED MAX
EJECTING THRU THE BASE OF UPR TROUGH OVR NM. SO IT APPEARS TWO
DISCRETE PRECIP MECHANISMS TAKING SHAPE TDA...FOREMOST BEING LEAD
TROUGH AIDED BY INTENSIFYING SPEED MAX AS THEY EJECT NE THIS MORNING
AND SECONDARY DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTN ALG STRONG COLD FRONT. STRATUS
REDEVELOPMENT LAST EVENING WITHIN CONTD MOIST SERLY FLOW WILL NEGATE
SUFFICIENT DIURNAL DESTABILIZATION TO PROMOTE DISCERNIBLE SVR
RISK...BUT PERHAPS SOMETHING REACHING MARGINAL STATUS POSSIBLE OVR
NRN KS AND FAR SRN NE. OTHERWISE XPC TEMPERED TEMP RECOVERY.

POST FRONTAL COLD ADVECTION SURGE QUITE INTENSE THIS EVENING AND DAY
SHIFT WILL NEED TO MONITOR TIMING OF ITS ARRIVAL BUT THE APPEARANCE
NOW IS IT WILL ARRIVE TOO LATE TO POSE A PROBLEM. OTHERWISE XPC
RAPID CLEARING EARLY TONIGHT.

ON SUN...UPSTREAM SLIDER DIVING DOWN WRN SIDE OF INTENSE UPR TROUGH
QUITE COLD AND EVEN W/SCOUR OF LL MSTR PLUME...ANY BIT OF SFC
HEATING COMBINED W/FAVORABLE LEFT OVR CYCLONIC WRAP ARND MSTR BODES
WELL FOR SHOWER THREAT MIDDAY SUNDAY...OTHERWISE MUCH COOLER INTO
MON.

LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...RIDGE REBUILDS IN THE WEST EARLY
IN THIS PERIOD AND SLOWLY MOVES EASTWARD INTO THE PLAINS THURSDAY.
ANOTHER STRONG 5H TROUGH MOVES ONTO THE WEST COAST WEDNESDAY AND
BECOMES A MAJOR PLAYER IN THE WEATHER BY LATE WEEK. TWO MAIN
CONCERNS WITH THIS WEATHER SYSTEM TOWARD NEXT WEEKEND...TEMPERATURES
AND PRECIPITATION. HAVE CONTINUED DAYSHIFT TREND OF ADJUSTING
TEMPERATURES DOWNWARD...AS RTN OF SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL MAKE FOR
DIFFICULT WARMING ESPECIALLY AS LL MOISTURE MAKES IT UP HERE BY
FRIDAY. PRECIPITATION IS A TOUGH ONE. WILL WAIT FOR THE NEXT RUN OF
GUIDANCE TO NARROW THE TIMING AND POTENTIAL SCOPE OF PRECIPITATION
BY LATE WEEK BUT LOOKS LIKE A STRONG SIGNAL AT THIS POINT.

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.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.NE...NONE.
.KS...NONE.

&&

T/JCB/MORITZ

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
931 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-
931 AM CST SAT MAR 27 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER NORTHEAST
OF A KEARNEY TO HEBRON LINE INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. THIS PRECIPITATION
AREA WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH OR MOVE OUT OF THE REGION BY 2 PM.

ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH MAY BE STRONG TO
SEVERE...WILL PUSH EAST ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA LATE THIS MORNING AND
AFTERNOON. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY ALONG
AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA AND ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

INITIAL THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE WILL BE WEST OF HIGHWAY 281. AS
THE THUNDERSTORMS BECOME MORE ORGANIZED...A NARROW LINE OF STORMS
WILL FORM AND PUSH EAST ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THE
PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE EAST OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS BY EARLY THIS EVENING.

THOUGH AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE...WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.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