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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1996, 11:07 PM CDT for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 10 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
- Jun 15, 1996, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDT, 7 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDT, 7 hours 58 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 310 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1996 MORE PROBLEMS THAN IMAGINEABLE TODAY...FEW WEATHER RELATED. BIGGEST WX CONCERNS TO BE PCPN (POSS SVR AND HVY RAIN) BEING HELD TOGETHER WITH BUBBLE GUM AND SHOESTRINGS HERE TODAY WITH DISASTROUS AFOS COMPUTER PROBLEMS. ENOUGH DATA THO TO GET THE GENERAL IDEA OF THE SITN. INSTABILITY...DEEP MOISTURE AND SFC LIFTING MECHANISMS ALREADY IN PLACE TO SLOLY COME TOGETHER THIS EVENING WITH UPPER LVL SYSTEM PUSHING EAST OVER FA. SCT STORM FIRING ALL OVER THE KUEX SCOPE WITH MORE EXPECTED AS NSAT SHOWING CLOUDS BREAKING UP OVER SRN HLF OF CWA. NC KS HAS HAD MOST SS TDY...THUS WL BE LOOKING FOR PSBL SEVERE THERE FIRST...BUT WITH THETA-E RIDGE AXIS ALIGNED NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST THRU ABOUT THE CENTER POINTS OF CWA AND HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES...AM LEANING TOWARD MAINLY HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. TUFF CALL TO PINPOINT ANYTHING AS I COUNTED 3 DISTINCT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ON KUEX SCOPE AND NSAT EARLIER. LITTLE PCPN PAST FEW DAYS AND FFG HIGH ENOUGH NOT TO WARRANT FFA TONIGHT...ALTHO STREET FLOODING/SMALL CREEK FLOODING WILL BE WATCHED. HV COORD THIS WITH GLD AND DDC. FLO BCMS NWLY ALFT TMRW...THETE AND HIER PRECIP WATERS...STAB INDICES SHIFT TO ERN NEB/KS SUN...THUS RAIN CHCS SHUD GRDLY DCRS...BUT WDSPRD RAIN...EMBDD TSTMS A GUD BET FOR FIRST HLF AM. LITTLE SUN TIL MONDAY. FWC GUID HAS LOWERED TEMPS TO FIT WITH PCPN AND CLDS...SO LUK RSBL ATTM. OAX/TOP...AFOS PARTS ON ORDER. WERE ON BACKUP UFN. GRI 067/074 96 LXN 065/073 95 ODX 066/074 97 HEB 068/076 XX BLT 068/078 97 BREWSTER
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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.