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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Hastings, NE

August 4, 1992Buffalo County, Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1992, 9:06 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Kearney County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 1992, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1992, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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, 3:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 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 55 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, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	45 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, 9:55 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm 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.