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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Hastings, NE

August 5, 1995Sherman County, Valley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 1:02 PM CDT for Sherman County, Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 928 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
928 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 11:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-060500-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1135 AM CDT FRI AUG 4 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES

JEWELL        MITCHELL         OSBORNE
PHILLIPS      ROOKS            SMITH

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

SYNOPSIS: A MID LEVEL IMPULSE OF ENERGY IS EXPECTED TO SWING ACROSS
WESTERN AND CENTRAL 0KANSAS TONIGHT.  THIS COMBINED WITH PLENTY OF MOIST
AND UNSTABLE AIR COULD TRIGGER OFF SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.

EWALD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman50 min
Aug 5, 2:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo44 min
Aug 5, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall47 min
Aug 5, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall50 min
Aug 5, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHall35 min
Aug 5, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick52 min
Aug 5, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.