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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Hastings, NE

July 3, 1996Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 7:57 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 3, 1996, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Dawson County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 Jul 3, 2:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
215 PM CDT WED JUL 3 1996

...PRBLM WILL BE STORMS...TEMPS TOMR AS CLDS FROM PSBL MCS MAY NOT BE
OUT OF AREA TIL NOONISH...

LINE HAS HELD TOGETHER TODAY AND IS PROGRESSING THROUGH NRN CNTYS ATT.
SOME INTENSIFICATION NOTED IN PAST HOUR PER LDS...AND KUEX/KLNX 88DS.
THIS IS MAINLY TO NE OF CWA BUT TRENDS ARE SWRD. WITH PLENTLY OF SUN
AND INCRG MOISTURE TO THE SOUTH OF LINE...THIS TREND SHOULD CONTINUE.

STORMS TO SPREAD ACROSS AREA THIS AFTN AND EVENING AND WITH SOME DVLPMT
TO THE NORTH...EVEN NORTH CNTYS TO HAVE WDLY SCT ACTIVITY INTO EVENING.
THINGS WILL CALM DOWN FOR A TIME BEFORE NEXT SYS FORMS ON HI PLAINS AND
DIVES FOR US AFTER MIDNIGHT. WILL WORD SCT TRWS THIS EVENING AND AGAIN
LATE TONIGHT.

FOR TOMR...SOUTH PERIPHERY OF CNTYS SHOULD BE ON BACK SIDE OF MCS THRU
SUNRISE OR EVEN TO MID MORNING. RIDGE BUILDS A BIT STRONGER NEWRD AND
NEXT SYS TOMR AFTN/EVE SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM AREA.

AFTER THAT...RUILD IS FLATTENED BY SYSTEMS ROTATING THRU SO BETTER CHC
TRWS INTO FRI NIGHT AND THE WEEKEND.

AS FOR TEMPS...WILL FOLLOW PRETTY CLOSE TO GUIDANCE.

GRI 066/091 54       LXN 063/095 33
ODX 062/092 52       HEB 067/090 55
BLT 068/094 34

GURNEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson48 min
Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas35 min
Jul 3, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas45 min
Jul 3, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Smith45 min
Jul 3, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne45 min
Jul 3, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDOsborne29 min
Jul 3, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips50 min
Jul 4, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.