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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Hastings, NE

June 6, 1996Rooks County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 4:56 AM CDT for Rooks County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1996, 4:56 AM CDT (09:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 5:00 AM CDTHail 1Smith Center, KS
Jun 6, 5:30 AM CDTHail 1.25Stockton, KS
Jun 6, 5:40 AM CDTHail 1.25Plainville, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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 Jun 6, 3:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
259 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

...TIMING OF END OF PCPN TODAY BIGGEST CONCERN ATTM...

EVE UA ANALYS INDCTD H5 S/WV TROF SLICING THROUGH CENTRAL WY WITH 100KT
JETLET IN SUPPORT AT H3. LINES OF CONVECTION ON KLNX AND KUEX ASSOC WITH
SYS ERLY THIS AM...BUT THANKFULLY CWA UNDER RATHER STRONG INFLUENCE OF
MESO HI PRES AND MOST OF SVR WX MEETING ITS MAKER ON OUR DOORSTEP. WILL
KEEP FINGERS X. H20 VAP LOOP ALSO SHOWING MIDLEVEL S/WV DIGGING OVER
NORTHERN TIER WITH MODELS IN AGREEMENT OF SWINGING IT GRDLY THRU CWA BY
LATE THIS PM. GUD NVA NOT STRONG IN AREA UNTIL TONIGHT...THUS WILL
BREAK OUT CLDS WEST MID PM WITH LINGERING CLDNS EAST.  SCT TRW+ FOR WEST
SHUD END BEFORE 9 AM WITH EAST LOSING PRECIP CHCS AROUND NOON BASED ON
POSN OF NGM VORT POSN AT 18Z. WITH COLD POOL ASSOC WITH TROF SLIPPING
TO AREA THIS PM...MSTLY CLDY TDY SEEMS IN ORDER WITH PSBL INSTAB RW THIS
AFTERNOON. ALSO...MEAN RH VALUES ON MODELS REMAIN ABOVE 60 PCT INTO THE
PM WHICH FITS WITH UPSTREAM OBS ASSOC WITH TROF.

LITTLE TIME TO CHECK MUCH ELSE OUT GIVEN CURR WX...BUT FWC TEMPS LOOK ON
TRAK WITH HI PRES BUILDING IN SFC AND ALFT TON WITH DRIER AIR.
THICKNESS AND H8 TEMPS TAKE SOME TIME RECOVERING BEHIND TROF...THUS
TEMPS FRI LUK ON TRAK OR A COUPLE DEGS HIER THAN TDY WITH BETTER SOLAR
INSOLATION FRI.

GRI 077/052 50     HBR 077/052  5-
ODX 076/050 40     BLT 078/053  5-
LXN 077/049 40

BREWSTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas49 min
Jun 6, 3:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper28 min
Jun 6, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson47 min
Jun 6, 3:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas42 min
Jun 6, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips62 min
Jun 6, 5:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne33 min
Jun 6, 5:38 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne37 min
Jun 6, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks27 min
Jun 6, 6:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.