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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Hastings, NE

August 5, 1996Franklin County, Webster County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 12:23 AM CDT for Franklin County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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 5, 1996, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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, 9 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:28 PM CDT, 9 hours 55 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
226 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996

SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT OF IMMEDIATE CONCERN.

KUEX 88D WITH THUNDERSTORMS REPEATING OVER SAME AREA FROM LXN TO
GREELEY.  NEXT TRIGGER MECHANISM APPEARS TO LINE OF RETURN FROM LBF TO
MCK.  THIS ALSO SEEN ON 1KM VIS SHOT.  THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO
INCREASE OVER NEBRASKA CWA BY LATE AFTERNOON.  WIND PROFILE AND HIGH
INSTABILITY MAY SUPPORT ISOLATED SUPERCELLS.  WILL LIKELY MENTION
POSSIBLE OF SEVERE IN NORTH CENTRAL ZONES TONIGHT WITH CYCLOGENISIS IN
NORTHWEST KANSAS STRENGTHENING SFC MOISTURE CONVERG.

VERY QUICK LOOK AT MODELS...ONLY AVN/ETA GRIDS...GIVES THIS
INTERPRETATION.  BOTH AVN/ETA GRIDDED DATA MOVE H7 WAV FROM COLORADO UP
INTO CWA BY TONIGHT.  FINE UPPER DIVERGENCE IN RR QUAD OF JET FROM
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TO NORTH DAKOTA.  THE COMBINATION OF FAVORALBE
JET DYNAMICS AND WAVE MAY QUICK MORE INTENSE STORMS TOWARD MIDNIGHT.
THIS COULD VERY WELL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE TALKED ABOUT MCS MOVING
INTO IOWA REGION.

FRONT NEVER REALLY COMES ON THROUGH AS UPPER FLOW LEAVES LITTLE TO PUSH
IT.  ACTUALLY...ANOTHER COLD POOL OF -25C H5 AIR OVER BRITISH COLUMBIA
ATTM WILL DIVE INTO BACK SIDE OF TROF.  EXPECT THIS TO ACTUALLY BE COLD
PUSH...AS LEAD FRONT WILL WASH OUT...RETREAT OR WHAT HAVE YOU.  THE
SECOND FRONT LOOKS LIKE IT MAY WORK IN HERE TUESDAY...FURTHER NORTH
WILL HAVE BEST DYNAMICS AT FIRST GLANCE.

GUIDANCE WISE...WENT A BIT WARMER THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST GIVING SLOWING
FRONT.  WILL BE VERY WARM AND HUMID SOUTH TONIGHT.  PER CALL WITH TOP
WILL HIGHLIGHT THIS.  AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE NORTH TOMORROW STILL IN
QUESTION AND WILL PLAY LROLE IN TEMPS.  LIKE THE FWC POPS BETTER.

GRI 070/088 63             HBR 071/091 63
ODX 068/086 73             BEL 073/094 43
LXN 066/084 62

MORITZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall, Howard, Merrick40 min
Aug 4, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHall40 min
Aug 4, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Kearney, Phelps35 min
Aug 4, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks48 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.