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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 3:38 PM CDT for Hall County, Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1992, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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, Aug 4, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
203 PM CST TUE AUG 4 1992
150 PM CDT ORD VALLEY CO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
50 TO 70 MPH WINDS
VERY HEAVY RAIN.
BWLocal storm report, Aug 4, 2:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
220 PM CST TUE AUG 4 1992
212 PM CDT NORTH LOUP VALLEY CO PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
60 TO 70 MPH WINDS
t VERY HEAVY RAIN.
200-210 PM CDT ORD 8S VALLEY CO PEA SIZE HAIL COVERING GROUND
BRANCHES DOWN
VERY HEAVY RAIN.Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
220 PM CST TUE AUG 4 1992
212 PM CDT NORTH LOUP VALLEY CO PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
60 TO 70 MPH WINDS
VERY HEAVY RAIN.
200-210 PM CDT ORD 8S VALLEY CO PEA SIZE HAIL COVERING GROUND
BRANCHES DOWN
VERY HEAVY RAIN.
212 PM CDT ORD VALLEY CO LETTING UP
PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
STRONG WIND...CORN CROP DOWN
1.62 INCHES OF RAIN.
215 PM CDT SCOTIA GREELEY CO VERY HEAVY RAIN
WIND 60 TO 70 MPH.
217 PM CDT SCOTIA GREELEY CO VERY HEAVY RAIN
PEA SIZE HAIL
WIND 40 TO 50 MPH.
BWLocal storm report, Aug 4, 2:59 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
300 PM CST TUE AUG 4 1992
230 PM CDT SCOTIA GREELEY CO PEA SIZE HAIL
30 TO 35 MPH WINDS
VERY HEAVY RAIN...1.20 INCHS SO FAR.
254 PM CDT FARWELL
AND ELBA HOWARD CO PEA SIZE HAIL
WIND 50 TO 65 MPH
VERY HEAVY RAIN.
BWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 55 min |
| Aug 4, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard, Merrick | 69 min |
| Aug 4, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Merrick | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, York | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 51 min |
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.