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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Hastings, NE

August 4, 1996Hamilton County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1996, 5:36 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 4, 1996, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 4, 2:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-050500-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
329 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996

...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND FOR A PART
   OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

SPOTTER ACTION...IT IS EXPECTED SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED
ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.

SYNOPSIS...

THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBARSKA AND NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS.

AT 315 PM...A TORNADO WATCH WAS IN EFFECT FOR NEARLY ALL OF SOUTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 800 PM.

TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S...AND SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN
THE LOWER 70S HAVE COMBINED TO FORM A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE
REGION.  ONE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THE REST OF THE
AFTERNOON NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM CENTRAL CITY NEBRASKA TO
PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS.  A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AS
THEY MOVE QUICKLY NORTHEAST.  THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH AND EAST OF THAT LINE
WILL LIKELY OCCUR AFTER 500 PM.

BY THIS EVENING...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH NORTH INTO
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  THIS DISTURBANCE WILL
TEAM WITH INCREASING LIFT IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE AND TRIGGER NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS.  WIND PROFILES AND THE HIGH INSTABILITY WILL HELP
PRODUCE AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF
WHICH WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES.

EVEN THOUGH THE INITIAL TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM IN
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY FOR SEVERE WEATHER
TO CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHT OVER THE AREA. ( ALL INTERESTED PARTIES
SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS POTENT WEATHER SITUATION BE PREPARED TO
TAKE ACTION.  LISTEN TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO
FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS.

MORITZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHoward, Nance34 min
Aug 4, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMerrick, Nance36 min
Aug 4, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMerrick, Polk39 min
Aug 4, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNance33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.