Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1997, 8:06 AM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 24, 1997, 8:06 AM CDT (13:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nuckolls County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 241320 COR FFWGRI NEC129-241915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ...CORRECTED TEXT... FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 806 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NUCKOLLS COUNTY AT 800 AM...THE REPUBLICAN RIVER NEAR SUPERIOR WAS RUNNING BANKFULL AND IS EXPECTED TO RISE MORE THIS MORNING. LOST CREEK WEST OF SUPERIOR HAD WATER OUT OF IT'S BANKS WITH SANDBAGGING UNDERWAY. FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY IN THESE AREAS. THIS FLOODING IS DUE TO OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN THAT FELL OVER WESTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTY. FURTHER WEST...2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL NEAR GUIDE ROCK AND RED CLOUD. THUS...MORE WATER WILL CONTINUE TO DRAIN INTO THE RIVERS AND CREEKS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A ROAD COVERED BY WATER. THE ROAD COULD BE WAS(HED OUT UNDER THE WATER SURFACE OR YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY IF WATER IS FLOWING SWIFTLY. PEOPLE ALONG AREA WATERWAYS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 24, 3:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 325 AM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 ...IMMEDIATE PRBLM WILL BE DEALING WITH HEAVT AMT OF RAIN IN SE CWA EARLY THIS AM...THEN BRINGING STORMS BACK INTO AREA THIS AFTN & TONIGHT... AT 06Z...SFC CHART HAD 65/70 DWPTS PREVALENT ACROSS CWA. SFC PATTERN TO THE W AND NW VERY HAPHAZARD WITH SFC LOS IN CNTRL SD...SE WY... SE CO...UT. GENERAL FRONT EXTENDS NE TO SW FROM FARGO TO CYS TO UT/AZ BORDER. KUEX CONTS TO SHOW AREA OF RAIN...EMBEDDED TSRA OVER ERN PARTS OF CWA. STP HAS 2.5-3.0 STRIP OF RAIN FROM EXTREME ERN SMITH INTO NW JEWELL CNTY KS. SEVERAL REPORTS...ONE ONLY A FEW MILES EAST OF THIS AREA SUGGEST 88D IS UNDERESTIMATING AMTS BY 1/2 IN THIS TROPICAL AIRMASS. GOOD NEW IS THAT THIS AREA IS NOW LIFTING NORTH OUT OF KS. DEPUTY EN ROUTE TO AREA TO CHECK ON CREEK LVLS IN AREA. BASED ON THAT INPUT...LIKELY WILL NEED SOME STATEMENT ON IT. MODELS VARY IN SPEED AT WHICH FRONT TO THE NW COMES THRU AREA WITH AVN AND ETA BRINGING IT THRU A GOOD 6 HRS FASTER THAN NGM. THESE MODELS BASICALLY FORM MAIN LO IN SW KS WHICH DRAGS FRONT FURTHER SOUTH. THE ONLY IMPLICATION THIS WILL HAVE IS THE AMT OF SVR WX AS ALL MODELS BRING GOOD VVS FROM RRQ OF JET TO OUR NW THRU AREA LATE TODAY AND THRU TONIGHT. TRWS WILL BE LIKELY EVERYWHERE...BUT ESP IN SE 1/2 OF CWA LATE TODAY INTO TONIGHT. EVEN INTO WED...GUIDANCE SUPPORTS SCT POPS FROM PIECE OF ENERGY MOVING E TO W ALONG BOUNDARY...ESP IN NC KS...BUT PERHAPS EVEN INTO NEB. AM GUESSING MDLS WILL ERROR TOWARD HAVING THE FRONT TOO FAR SOUTH AT THIS POINT...SO WILL THROW 30/40% POPS IN FROM GRI SOUTH. AS FOR TEMPS...TOO MAIN FACTORS AGAINST A GOOD WARMUP TODAY AS GOOD CHC FOR LOTS OF CLDS. WILL STILL GO WITH FWCS WARMER S AS IT WILL ONLY TAKE A LITTLE SUN TO BOOST TEMPS INTO THE LOW 80S. GIVEN VWPS AND PROFILERS...WILL KEEP BREEZY SW WINDS IN FCST. TONIGHT...WILL BE A BEAR AS TEMPS WILL VARY SIFNIFICANTLY BASED ON FRONTAL POSITION. WILL GO AOA GUIDANCE...AND KEEP IT CLOSE TO FWC ON WED. GRI TB 083/063/082 773 HBR TB 084/064/083 773 ODX TB 084/061/081 752 LXN TB 084/061/082 752 BLT TB 084/065/082 774 GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 27 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.