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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Hastings, NE

June 21, 1996Adams County, Webster County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 4:33 AM CDT for Adams County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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 21, 1996, 4:33 AM CDT (09:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1996, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adams County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 1996-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1940 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 1996-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 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
1940 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-271 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 21, 2:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson64 min
Jun 21, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGosper51 min
Jun 21, 2:13 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDGosper32 min
Jun 21, 2:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman33 min
Jun 21, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper47 min
Jun 21, 4:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan, Phelps26 min
Jun 21, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Hall37 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.