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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

June 15, 1996Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 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 1996-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 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
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

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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 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

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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.