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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

June 24, 1989Buffalo County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1989, 7:24 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1989, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1989, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Buffalo 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 7:52 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Hall, NE
Jun 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Hall, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:46 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 7:08 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 7:12 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 8:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	109 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

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.