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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Hastings, NE

June 22, 1996Mitchell County, Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 12:14 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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 22, 1996, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2938 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2938 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
13.7

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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, 2:38 PM CDT, 9 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:38 PM CDT, 9 hours 36 minutes before
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.