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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Hastings, NE

May 31, 1996Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1996, 2:14 AM CDT for Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 31, 1996, 2:14 AM CDT (07:14 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 302 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 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 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
302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-293 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

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.