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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Hastings, NE

July 5, 19944 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 10:34 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1994, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1994, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greeley County, NE, Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 00:00Z on 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3368 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1994-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3368 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
8.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley28 min
Jul 5, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard29 min
Jul 5, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Nance54 min
Jul 5, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Valley39 min
Jul 5, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNance39 min
Jul 6, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley42 min
Jul 6, 2:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley56 min

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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.