Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1992, 2:00 AM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1992, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1992, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:43 PM CDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-242145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 845 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEAST FILLMORE AND EASTERN YORK COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED... AT 830 PM...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND. IN ADDITION OTHER THUNDESTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF LINCOLN. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST NO7RTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. GRIFFITH
Local storm report, Jul 24, 9:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
914 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992
TIME COUNTY PLACE REPORT
2100 YORK MCCOOL JUNCTION 1 MILE EAST OF MCCOOL JUNCTION
A GRAVEL ROAD WAS WASHED OUT.
WATER GOING DOWN IN TOWN BUT WEST
FORK OF LITTLE BLUE RISING.
GRIFFITHLocal storm report, Jul 24, 9:56 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
955 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992
TIME COUNTY PLACE REPORT
2153 YORK MCCOOL JUNCTION WEST FORK OF LITTLE BLUE OUT OF
ITS BANKS IN TOWN.
GRIFFITHSpecial weather statement, Jul 24, 11:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-250545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1143 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FILLMORE AND SOUTHERN YORK UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 1130 PM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME INTENSE...WERE OCCURRING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHEAST...AND EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AND A SMALL PART OF EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN A 20 MILE WIDE BAND FROM JUST WEST OF HASTINGS...TO NEAR HEBRON...TO FAIRBURY...AND TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF BEATRICE NEBRASKA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLY SOME HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. AS THESE STORMS PASSED ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF NEBRASKA...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURRED WITH SOME REPORTS OF 4.20 INCHES AT EXETER...3.00 INCHES AT FAIRMONT...2.30 INCHES AT SHICKLEY...2.60 INCHES AT HARVARD...2.40 INCHES AT GLENVILLE...AND 1.60 INCHES AT GRAFTON WHERE INDIAN CREEK WAS OVER ITS BANKS THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS FROM THIS EVENINGS RAINFALL SHOULD BE ALERT TO PONDING OF WATER OVER ROAD SURFACES DURING THE NIGHT...AND TO ELOCALIZED FLOODING OF SMALLER CREEKS AND RIVERS IN THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IN THE EVENT OF FLOODED CREEKS AND RIVERS IN THE AREA...ESPECIALLY WHERE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED. VEJ
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 12:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-250545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1245 AM CDT SAT JUL 25 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FILLMORE COUNTY UNTIL 4 AM CDT... AT 1230 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME INTENSE...WERE OCCURRING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHEAST...AND EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AND A SMALL PART OF EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE IN A BAND 60 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED ON EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY...TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS...TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF BEATRICE...TO 20 MILES NORTH OF FALLS CITY. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. PERSONS IN THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS FROM THIS EVENINGS RAINFALL SHOULD BE ALERT TO PONDING OF WATER OVER ROAD SURFACES DURING THE NIGHT...AND TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SMALLER CREEKS AND RIVERS IN THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND IN THE EVENT OF FLOODED CREEKS AND RIVERS IN THE AREA...ESPECIALLY WHERE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED. GRIFFITH
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:43 AM CDT, 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton | 38 min |
| Jul 25, 12:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.