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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Hastings, NE

May 9, 1996Hall County, Hamilton County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 6:03 AM CDT for Hall County, Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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: May 9, 1996, 6:03 AM CDT (11:03 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1996, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 1091 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 May 9, 2:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 2:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 12:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

KSZ006-007-018-019-090615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1213 AM CDT THU MAY 9 1996

...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS HAS EXPIRED...

THE TORNADO WATCH ISSUELD EARLIER FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EXPIRED AT
MIDNIGHT AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED.

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
TONIGHT.

MORITZ

Special weather statement, May 9, 3:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	45 min
May 8, 8:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	41 min
May 8, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	15 min
May 8, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	35 min
May 9, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	26 min
May 9, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	31 min
May 9, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	32 min
May 9, 2:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	41 min
May 9, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.