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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Hastings, NE

August 2, 1996Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1996, 1:50 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1996, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1996, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 325 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 1996-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 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
325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1279 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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
Aug 2, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper, Phelps40 min
Aug 2, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhelps42 min
Aug 2, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan63 min
Aug 2, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips59 min
Aug 2, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips47 min
Aug 2, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.