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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1989, 8:11 PM CDT for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 109 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1989, 8:11 PM CDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1989, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 109 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, NE, Hall County, NE
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
740 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1989
TIME EVENT LOCATION
712 PM CDT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL KEARNEY IN SOUTHERN BUFFALO
COUNTY
715 PM CDT 80 MILE AN HOUR WINDS WOOD RIVER IN WESTERN HALL COUNTY
715 PM CDT ONE INCH HAIL KEARNEY IN SOUTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY
JMKLocal storm report, Jun 24, 7:41 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
740 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1989
TIME EVENT LOCATION
630 PM CDT FOUR INCHES OF RAIN LITCHFIELD IN SOUTHWESTERN
TODAY 3.25 INCHES SHERMAN COUNTY
OF RAIN IN TWO HOURS
649 PM CDT 2.30 INCHES OF RAIN LOUP CITY IN NORTHERN SHERMAN
IN A FEW MINUTES COUNTY
URBAN FLOODING
JMKLocal storm report, Jun 24, 7:57 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 800 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1989 TIME EVENT LOCATION 752 PM CDT 60 MILE AN HOUR WINDS CITY OF GRAND ISLAND JMK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 2 hr |
| Jun 24, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Gosper | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.