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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Hastings, NE

June 6, 1996Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 6:06 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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, 6:06 AM CDT (11:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1996, 6:45 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:09 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 6:15 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Beloit, 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 nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 3130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 401 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.1
Supercell composite: 18.2

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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 Jun 6, 3:06 AM CDT, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:06 AM CDT, 3 hours 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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:26 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

NEZ060-072-073-074-082-083-084-085-086-061115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
526 AM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

...TORNADO WATCH #565 CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

ALTHOUGH SCATTERED RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID
MORNING THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES HAS ENDED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA AND THE TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL 6 AM CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
FOR DAWSON...FURNAS...FRANKLIN...GOSPER...HARHLAN...PHELPS...KEARNEY...
NUCKOLLS AND WEBSTER COUNTIES.

BREWSTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	49 min
Jun 6, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	28 min
Jun 6, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	47 min
Jun 6, 3:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	42 min
Jun 6, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	62 min
Jun 6, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks, Smith	49 min
Jun 6, 5:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	33 min
Jun 6, 5:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	37 min
Jun 6, 5:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	27 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.