Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2013, 1:37 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2013, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2013, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 12:47 PM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 12:47 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 1:26 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1226 PM MDT WED MAY 29 2013 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-301500- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1226 PM MDT WED MAY 29 2013 /126 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING. COVERAGE AND INTENSITY WILL INCREASE AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND A FEW TORNADOES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA IS AT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER...THE MOST LIKELY AREA WILL BE EAST OF THE COLORADO BORDER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS MAY LEAD TO AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER OVER SOUTH OF A LINE FROM FLAGLER TO SHARON SPRINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING. JTL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 1:22 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1222 PM MDT WED MAY 29 2013 KSZ001-002-NEZ079-291845- CHEYENNE-DUNDY-RAWLINS- 122 PM CDT WED MAY 29 2013 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...CHEYENNE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KANSAS AND DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... AT 120 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIRD CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE. && LAT...LON 3967 10140 3970 10185 4011 10181 4014 10133 TIME...MOT...LOC 1822Z 191DEG 20KT 3982 10160 MENTZER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 32 min |
| May 28, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Gove | 29 min |
| May 29, 1:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 23 min |
| May 29, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 61 min |
| May 29, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 12 min |
| May 29, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 15 min |
| May 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 51 min |
| May 29, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Greeley | 12 min |
| May 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Thomas | 14 min |
| May 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan | 53 min |
| May 29, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 55 min |
| May 29, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 56 min |
| May 29, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Rawlins | 25 min |
| May 29, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 54 min |
| May 29, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 53 min |
| May 29, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 34 min |
| May 29, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Wichita | 38 min |
| May 29, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 5 hr |
| May 29, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Cheyenne | 24 min |
| May 29, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 29, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 61 min |
| May 29, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 25 min |
| May 29, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 62 min |
| May 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Wallace | 51 min |
| May 29, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 3 hr |
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 38 min |
| May 29, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| May 29, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 29, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 47 min |
| May 29, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan | 45 min |
| May 29, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 41 min |
| May 29, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wichita | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Logan | 46 min |
| May 29, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 47 min |
| May 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 56 min |
| May 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 30 min |
| May 29, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 59 min |
| May 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 38 min |
| May 29, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 52 min |
| May 29, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 47 min |
| May 29, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 42 min |
| May 29, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 29 min |
| May 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 45 min |
| May 29, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 60 min |
| May 29, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| May 29, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 43 min |
| May 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 47 min |
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 45 min |
| May 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 54 min |
| May 29, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 53 min |
| May 29, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Dundy | 24 min |
| May 29, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 64 min |
| May 29, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.