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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Hastings, NE

June 7, 1994Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1994, 8:20 AM CDT for Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1994, 8:20 AM CDT (13:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1994, 9:15 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Webster County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 873 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1994-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, Jun 7, 4:03 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-071000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
403 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 355 AM RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LEXINGTON NEAR GOTHENBURG.  REPORTS FROM GOTHENBURG INDICATED THE STORM
WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN.  ALTHOUGH NO HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
STORM IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH AND MAY MOVE INTO THE SUMNER
AND EDDYVILLE AREAS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD KEEP ABREAST FOR LATER STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS.

GRIFFITH
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:04 AM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-071000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
403 AM CDT TUE JUN 7 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 355 AM RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LEXINGTON NEAR GOTHENBURG.  REPORTS FROM GOTHENBURG INDICATED THE STORM
WAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN.  ALTHOUGH NO HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
STORM IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH AND MAY MOVE INTO THE SUMNER
AND EDDYVILLE AREAS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD KEEP ABREAST FOR LATER STATEMENTS
OR WARNINGS.

GRIFFITH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 5:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson49 min
Jun 7, 6:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo27 min
Jun 7, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo45 min
Jun 7, 7:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney48 min
Jun 7, 7:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Hall43 min
Jun 7, 7:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams40 min
Jun 7, 8:13 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams22 min
Jun 7, 8:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall46 min
Jun 7, 8:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, Hamilton55 min
Jun 7, 9:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.