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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Hastings, NE

July 24, 1992Hall County, Hamilton County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1992, 9:37 PM CDT for Hall County, Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1992, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1992, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 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

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The text

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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, Jul 24, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:43 PM CDT, 54 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, 22 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.

GRIFFITH

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 25, 12:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Fillmore	4 hr
Jul 25, 2:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	2 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.