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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Hastings, NE

September 11, 1995Jewell County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT for Jewell County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 11, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jewell County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 232 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 11, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks42 min
Sep 11, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips46 min
Sep 11, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith48 min
Sep 11, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips37 min
Sep 11, 9:19 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDSmith41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.