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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 1996Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1996, 7:38 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1996, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 11:40 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 2098 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 14.5

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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 flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 26, 2:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:23 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
220 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1996

QUESTION IS FLOODING POTENTIAL.

PER PREVIOUS DISCUSSION WITH OAX THE FLOOD WATCH OUTLINED LOOKS
REASONABLE. WILL KEEP IT GOING IN KANSAS TONIGHT. NO NEW FFG TO VIEW
ATTM.

WARM FRONT BOWING UP INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS KICKING SOME STORMS THERE
WITH BRISK EAST FLOW OVER CWA ATTM.  LOW PRESSURE MAKING SOME ATTEMPT
TO GET GOING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS.

TONIGHT...SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE MAINLY SOUTH OF NEBRASKA BUT
KANSAS COUNTIES NOT OF THE WOODS THIS EVENING AND WILL MENTION SEVERE
THERE. DID NOT HAVE TIME TO LOOK AT MUCH.  ETA LOOKS TOO FAST WITH THIS
TYPE OF SYSTEM WITH AVN/NGM IDEAS TAKEN.

MEMORIAL DAY ITSELF LOOKS BLUSTERY AND COLD.  WITH RAIN AND EVEN
THUNDERSTORMS IN WRAP AROUND SHIELD. COLDER FAN NUMBERS LOOK BETTER
WITH A BRISK NORTHEAST WIND.  THOUGH UPPER SYSTEM WEAKENS IN TIME AS IT
BECOMES VERTIrCALLY STACKED, CAN SEE NO REASON FOR THINGS TO CLEAR OUT
OR WARM UP TOO SOON.

BLT 055/061 +8           HBR 051/057 +8
GRI 048/055 +8           LXN 046/055 +6
ODX 045/053 +8

MORITZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.