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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Hastings, NE

August 6, 1996Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 8:34 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 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 6, 1996, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Dawson County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 1996-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2637 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
6.5

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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 6, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson48 min
Aug 6, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Sherman, Valley55 min
Aug 6, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall38 min
Aug 6, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.