Thunderstorm Wind, Phillips
- When
- July 24, 12:40 AM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, 4 mi N of Phillipsburg
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.800, -99.317
Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 24, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 23, 1:01 PM CST, 11 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 1:01 PM CST, 11 hours 39 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 201 PM CDT MON JUL 23 2001 FCST CHALLENGE WILL BE TIMING/EXTENT OF PRECIP THROUGH PD. 18Z SFC MAP SHOWS STATIONARY FNTL BNDRY EXTNDD FM IA W INTO LEE SIDE TROF OVR SE CO. LG OUTFLW BNDRY FM AM MCS HAD PUSHED WELL S INTO C KS WITH A FEW LEFT OVR SHRA/S ALG IT. PRIMARY FOCUS FOR THE OVERNIGHT SHIFTS OUT W TO THE NE PANHANDLE WHERE CONVN CONTS TO ORGANIZE INVOF ENERGETIC UPR TROF PER WATER VAPOR OVR CO ALG SRN PERIPHERY OF 100 KT JET MAX IN ND AND FVRBL UPSLOPE FLW. 12Z MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT ON LG SCALE AND CONSISTENT W/PREVIOUS RUNS ADVERTISING MCS EVOLUTION TONIGHT. MAIN PLAYERS TONIGHT ARE AFOREMENTIONED CO WV...ND SPEED MAX AND STATIONARY BNDRY. XPC WRN NE STORMS TO EXPAND...ORGANIZE AND SPREAD EWD THIS EVENING IN ASSOCN/W LG SCALE ASCENT AHD OF EJECTING WV AND INCREASING UPR LVL DVRG INVOF ENTRANCE REGION OF SIG UPR JET. SIG QPF POSSIBLE WITHIN DVLPG AGEO CIRC ACRS 850-700MB FGEN BNDRY AS MCS/MCC TAKES SHAPE ARND MIDNIGHT OR LTR. BEST HVY RAIN THREAT N OF I-80. NO DOUBT PLENTY OF MOISTR TO WORK WITH GIVEN TOP 12Z PW NR 2 INCHES AND CONTD SUBTROPIC MOIST PLUME OVRHD. STILL XPC A FEW STORMS TO FIRE ALG STATIONARY FNT LT THIS AFTN ESP IN LIEU OF DESTABILIZATION UNDERWAY CURRENTLY AND OBSVD MOIST CONV ALG BNDRY PER LAPS/RUCII. WILL CONT TO MONITOR. OTHERWISE...SIG RAIN TO HOLD IN THROUGH TOMORROW AM IN THE LEAST. RAIN COULD GO ALL DAY AHD OF MID LVL TROF AND CONTD UPR SUPPORT. APPEARS BEST CHC OF SIG QPF SHLD SHIFT SWD DURING THE DAY IN PROXIMITY TO BEST THETA-E RIDGING AND LG SCALE ASCENT AHD OF MID LVL TROF. SEEMS PRUDENT AT THIS POINT TO EXTND LIKELY POPS INTO TUE NIGHT...ESP OVR NRN KS BUT TEMPORARILY DRYING OUT AFT THAT ON WED. GENERAL FLATTENING OF UPR HGTS WILL LEAD TO SWD SHIFT OF MID LAT WESTERLIES IN CONJUNCTION W/RENEWED TROFFING ALG W COAST SHLD MAKE FOR UNSETTLED CONDS THU CONTG INTO THE WEEKEND. WILL AMEND EXTNDD TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS THINKING. .GID...NONE. TEH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 12:05 AM CST, 35 minutes before
NEZ060-072-082-240700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 105 AM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 617 HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...NUMBER 617...ISSUED MONDAY EVENING FOR PARTS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS BUT A WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER EVENT IS NOT ANTICIPATED. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. KISNER
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 24 to 31, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Iowa, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 24 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 24, 2001
- Tornadoes in Maine, July 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 24 to 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, July 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5261362.