Thunderstorm Wind, Phillips
- When
- July 25, 12:30 AM CST
- Where
- Phillips County, Phillipsburg
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -99.317
Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 25, 2001
2 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
- 2
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 24, 5:23 PM CST, 7 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 5:23 PM CST, 7 hours 7 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 215 PM CDT TUE JUL 24 2001 ...RETRASMISSION... LKG CLOSELY AT POTENTIAL REPEAT OF MCS ACTIVITY AGAIN TNGT. MDLS/SPC ARE PEGGING THE ERN CO TO DOWNSTREAM ALONG THE NEB...KS BRDR AS THE PRIMARY TARGET AREA. SATELLITE...SFC OBS AND LIGHTNING DISPLAYS SHOW THE APPROACH OF THE WAVE...FALLING PRES OVR ERN CO AND SFC MSTR AXIS ALNG THE BRDR. SO WL GO ALNG...WITH UPGRADE TO LIKELY POPS FOR THE KS CWA. ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN IS FM THE BLACK HILLS INTO THE NRN NEB PANHANDLE WHERE THE MRNG UAA ANALYSIS INDS AN 850 MSTR AXIS...DVLPG DIFFLUENCE ALOFT...A SUNNY SKY FOR DESTABILIZATION WITH UPSLOPE SFC WND. EARLY AFTN ANALYSIS SHOWS THE EXPECTED LEE TROFFING WITH A CU FIELD DVLPG TO THE WEST OF UNR...AND NR THE ANALYZED MSTR AXIS. ETA PROGS THE MORE FAVORABLE Q-VECTOR CNVRGNC IN THIS AREA WITH EWD/SEWD CORFIDI VECTORS ALONG THE SD/NEB BRDR OVRNGT...BUT THICKNESS AND MSTR ORIENTATION MAY SPPRT MORE OF A SERN PROPAGATION OF ANY CLUSTER WHICH MAY DVLP UP YONDER. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT CHC POPS WL BE MAINTAINED FOR THE NEB AREA...WITH HIGHER NMBRS FOR THE NRN CWA. PATTERN PERSISTS SO MINIMAL CHANGES WL BE MADE FOR THE REST OF THE PACKAGE. WL ENTER A SMALL CHC OF RA IN THE ERN COUNTIES ON WED MRNG TO COVER ANY EXITING ACTIVITY...AND MAINTAIN THE RESTRICTION OF SMALL NEB POPS TO THE WRN ZONES FOR TSRA COMING OFF THE HIGH PLNS...BUT WL ADD A NGTTIME CHC TO KS AREA DUE TO UNCERTAIN PLACEMENT OF FRONT/BOUNDARY AS PER COORDINATION WITH TOPEKA. IN THE EFP...GENLY ZONAL FLOW OVR THE CNTRL PLNS SHOULD INCRS WITH CANADIAN/MRF PROGGED LOW XG SRN CAN AND FLAT RIDGE OVR THE SRN CONUS. SHRTWVS IN THE FLOW WL OBVIOUSLY BE DIFFICULT TO TIME SO MINOR ADJUSTMENTS WL RESULT IN RA MENTION EVERY OTHER DAY OR SO WITH NR...TO SLGTLY BLO SEASONAL TEMPS BY THE LATTER PDS. f.GID...NONE. 09
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:29 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Smith
- When
- July 25, 1:45 AM CST
- Where
- Smith County, Kensington
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 39.767, -99.033
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
- Flash Flood in Missouri, July 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Georgia, July 25, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, July 25, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 25, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 25 to 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
More
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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: 5261363, 5261364.