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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Hastings, NE

June 15, 1996Gosper County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 6:35 PM CDT for Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 15, 1996, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Gosper County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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 Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before

CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
310 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1996

MORE PROBLEMS THAN IMAGINEABLE TODAY...FEW WEATHER RELATED. BIGGEST WX
CONCERNS TO BE PCPN (POSS SVR AND HVY RAIN)

BEING HELD TOGETHER WITH BUBBLE GUM AND SHOESTRINGS HERE TODAY WITH
DISASTROUS AFOS COMPUTER PROBLEMS. ENOUGH DATA THO TO GET THE GENERAL
IDEA OF THE SITN. INSTABILITY...DEEP MOISTURE AND SFC LIFTING MECHANISMS
ALREADY IN PLACE TO SLOLY COME TOGETHER THIS EVENING WITH UPPER LVL
SYSTEM PUSHING EAST OVER FA. SCT STORM FIRING ALL OVER THE KUEX SCOPE
WITH MORE EXPECTED AS NSAT SHOWING CLOUDS BREAKING UP OVER SRN HLF OF
CWA. NC KS HAS HAD MOST SS TDY...THUS WL BE LOOKING FOR PSBL SEVERE
THERE FIRST...BUT WITH THETA-E RIDGE AXIS ALIGNED NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST
THRU ABOUT THE CENTER POINTS OF CWA AND HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER
VALUES...AM LEANING TOWARD MAINLY HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS. TUFF
CALL TO PINPOINT ANYTHING AS I COUNTED 3 DISTINCT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ON
KUEX SCOPE AND NSAT EARLIER. LITTLE PCPN PAST FEW DAYS AND FFG HIGH
ENOUGH NOT TO WARRANT FFA TONIGHT...ALTHO STREET FLOODING/SMALL CREEK
FLOODING WILL BE WATCHED. HV COORD THIS WITH GLD AND DDC.

FLO BCMS NWLY ALFT TMRW...THETE AND HIER PRECIP WATERS...STAB INDICES
SHIFT TO ERN NEB/KS SUN...THUS RAIN CHCS SHUD GRDLY DCRS...BUT WDSPRD
RAIN...EMBDD TSTMS A GUD BET FOR FIRST HLF AM. LITTLE SUN TIL MONDAY.
FWC GUID HAS LOWERED TEMPS TO FIT WITH PCPN AND CLDS...SO LUK RSBL
ATTM.

OAX/TOP...AFOS PARTS ON ORDER. WERE ON BACKUP UFN.

GRI 067/074 96       LXN 065/073 95
ODX 066/074 97       HEB 068/076 XX
BLT 068/078 97

BREWSTER

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.