Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2008, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Osborne County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:03 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 11 S Alton, KS | |
| May 1, 7:28 PM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | 3 E Osborne, KS | REPORTED 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH HAIL COVERING GROUND AT 725PM |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 020002 SVRGID KSC141-020030- /O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0021.080502T0000Z-080502T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 700 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 659 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSBORNE...OR 39 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OSBORNE BY 715 PM CDT DOWNS BY 730 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3957 9849 3919 9850 3916 9891 3943 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 240DEG 42KT 3930 9889 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGID 020007 SVSGID SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 707 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008 KSC141-020030- /O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080502T0030Z/ OSBORNE KS- 707 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR OSBORNE COUNTY... AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSBORNE...OR 39 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OSBORNE BY 715 PM CDT DOWNS BY 725 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3957 9849 3919 9850 3916 9891 3943 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 240DEG 42KT 3934 9880 $$
000
WWUS53 KGID 020015
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
713 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
KSC141-020030-
/O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080502T0030Z/
OSBORNE KS-
713 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR OSBORNE COUNTY...
AT 711 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OSBORNE...OR 34 MILES WEST OF
BELOIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DOWNS BY 725 PM CDT
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3921 9879 3946 9890 3957 9850 3956 9849
3919 9850
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 232DEG 46KT 3940 9872
$$000
WWUS53 KGID 020029
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
729 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
KSC141-020039-
/O.EXP.KGID.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080502T0030Z/
OSBORNE KS-
729 PM CDT THU MAY 1 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OSBORNE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
730 PM CDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES
THROUGH.
LAT...LON 3921 9879 3946 9890 3957 9850 3956 9849
3919 9850
TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 246DEG 41KT 3948 9850
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 16 min |
| May 2, 4:38 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 20 hr |
| May 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 10 hr |
| May 2, 3:10 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 18 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.