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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Hastings, NE

August 4, 1992Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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: Aug 4, 1992, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Dawson County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Dawson, 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 1198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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

Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 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, 5 hours 49 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.
BW

Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 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.
BW

Local storm report, Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
335 PM CST TUE AUG 4 1992

305 PM CDT   CAIRO HALL CO           MARBLE SIZE HAIL
                                     HIGH WINDS
332 PM CDT   W GRAND ISLAND/HALL CO  MARBEL SIZE HAIL
                                     VERY HIGH WINDS
                                      VERY HEAVY RAIN.
335 PM CDT   NE GRAND ISLAND        VERY HEAVY RAIN
                                    WINDOWS BROKEN
                                    .90 INCHES OF RAIN IN 09 MINUTES
                                     WATER OVER CURBS.
B

Local storm report, Aug 4, 4:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
405 PM CST TUE AUG 4 1992

335 PM CDT   W GRAND ISLAND/HALL CO  3/4 INCH HAIL
                                     HIGHWAYS 30/281

340 PM CDT  CAIRO 4E/HALL CO         1.00 INCH OF RAIN IN 10 MINUTES.

350 PM CDT  PHILLIPS 11/2SE/HAMILTON  WIND 30-40 MPH
                                      VISIBILITY NEAR ZERO IN RW+

355 PM CDT  TRUMBULL/CLAY CO         PEA SIZE HAIL
                                     30 TO 40 MPH WIND

328-358 CDT GRAND ISLAND/HALL       1.42 INCHES OF RAIN.

BW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Howard	52 min
Aug 4, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Merrick	53 min
Aug 4, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton	53 min
Aug 4, 8:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Hall, Howard, Merrick	3 hr
Aug 4, 8:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Hamilton	3 hr
Aug 4, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps	54 min
Aug 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	50 min
Aug 4, 9:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	4 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.