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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Hastings, NE

September 8, 1997Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1997, 8:49 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 8, 1997, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 8, 8:55 PM CDT	Hail 1	Gilead, NE
Sep 8, 9:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55	Deshler, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1939 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 090152
SVRGRI
NEC129-169-090245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
849 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NUCKOLLS COUNTY...THAYER COUNTY
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTER WILL REACH
BELVIDERE...DAVENPORT...AND ANGUS AROUND 9PM...AND HEBRON AND NELSON
AROUND 915PM.
 
AT 948PM CDT...HASTINGS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF YORK NEAR GENEVA...TO 15 MILES EAST OF HASTINGS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS AROUND
60 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER FOR
PROTECTION FROM DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YORK COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED
AS THE STORM HAS MOVED SOUTH OF YORK COUNTY.
 
MM/LEW

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 Sep 8, 2:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before

CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
255 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OF GREATEST CONCERN...THEN TEMPS BEYOND.

AT 18Z MDT SFC CDFNT WE'RE ANTICIPATING WAS LOCD FM CNTRL WY-VCNTY CDR
TO NR PIR AND NEWD TO WRN MN. 19Z OBS NOW SHOW GUSTY N WINDS AT CDR/VTN
SO WRN EDGE OF FNT WORKING SWD AT A GUD CLIP. ADAP HAS 2 AREAS MOIST
CONVG...ONE ASSOC WITH TSRA IN ERN SD...ANOTHER OVER WRN HI PLNS.
ALFT...FLOW PTTRN CHANGING OVR NRN PLAINS AS HTS RISE IN SW CAN AND
FALL OVR MO VLY AHD OF MIDLVL S/WV DIGGING TWD GTLKS. FLOW SHUD CHNG TO
MORE NLY COMPONENT THRU PD. 250 MB 80 KT JETSTREAK ALSO NOTED OVER NRN
MT.

AS THE PTTRN CHANGES...MDLS AGREE AND ARE RSBL WITH REAL WORLD THAT
CDFNT WL BE DRIVEN SWD THRU CWA TONIGHT AND THERE'S LTL DOUBT THAT SCT
TSRA WL OCCUR IN CWA AS IT INTERACTS WITH LLVL MOISTURE. QN IS WHERE WL
SVR BE?  AS HGHTS FALL...H7-H5 DPVA FM TAIL END OF S/WV AND RRQ OF H25
JETSTREAK RIDE OVER FNTL BNDRY TONITE TO PROVIDE QUITE A HELPING OF
VVELS PER ETA...NGM HAS SAME IDEA BUT WKR. AMT OF CAA SPILLING INTO
TROF AT 12Z ANLYS AND H20 VAP LOOP DKNG W/TIME TAFTN...TEND TO LEAN A
LTL CLOSER TO STRONGER SYS DEPICTED BY ETA. OAX SNDG WAS ALRDY MDTLY
UNSTABLE THIS AM...WHILE LBF HAS SHOWN SOME DESTABILIZATION THRU THE AM
AT 17Z SNDG...BUT INCRSD CAP. GTST INSTAB FM SC NEB EWD WITH WKNG CAP.
WL XPCT CONTD SWWD DVLPMT ALONG CDFNT FM SD INTO CNTRL NEB LATE
TAFTN...THEN INTO RMNDR SC NE/NC KS LATER THIS EVENING. BEST MOIST
CONVG...FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING AND THETE RIDGE IS PICKED UP MOSTLY TO
WEST OF AREA WHERE SPC HAS SVR OTLK...BUT WITH SYN LIFT FM TAIL END OF
S/WV AND JETLVL DVRG OVR AREA TONITE...CONFIDENCE THAT SOME
THUNDERSTORMS WL BECOME SVR HAILERS THIS EVE IS BCMG BETTER WITH POSN
SHIFTING FURTHER NE INCLDG MORE OF SC NEB. INSTAB AND WBZ WERE ALRDY
FVRBL AT 12Z.

ALL IN ALL...THE PRES FCST LUKS QUITE GOOD WITH SCT TSRA ALRDY IN THE
FCST TONITE. AM A LTL CONCERNED THAT SYS MAY SLOW UP A BIT AS IT
ENCOUNTERS WELL ENTRENCHED WARM/HUMID AMS (SIMILAR TO LAST WEEKS FROPA)
AND SRN ZONES MAY BE A BIT TOO COOL FOR MINS. WUD LEAN CLOSER TO FWC
AROUND 60 THERE...BUT NRN/WRN ZONES SHUD COOL OFF. BYND TON...CNSDBL
MIDLVL MOISTURE/CLDS NOTED UPSTRM ASSOC WITH ADVANCING SYS AND ALSO
POOL OF H8 MOISTURE BHND FNT...BUT NO CLDS. BLV LIFT WL DVLP PLENTY OF
POST FNTL CLDS FOR MORNING HRS B4 SUBS/MIXG MELTS AWAY FOR AFTN AS
DRIER AMS WORKS IN...AND LUKS LIKE SOME LINGERING LIFT MAY SQUEEZE OUT
A FEW SHRA IN NC KS...THUS WL INCLDD IN ERLY AM. CAA SC SHUD CONTU
UNTIL SUNDOWN OVER MOST AREAS ON TUES SO P/C AFTN LUKS GOOD.

WATCHES COMING OUT ATTM FOR PART OF CWA THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED...SO
3RD-4TH PDS LUK CLEAR...DRY AND COOLER WITH CHG OF AMS. CCF SHUD COVER
DETAILS OF OUTPDS.

GRI BS 063/075/048/078 4-00
HEB BS 062/074/049/080 4100
ODX BS 058/073/048/077 4000
LXN BS 060/073/047/079 4-00
BEL BS 067/078/052/081 3200

BREWSTER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:37 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
837 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0825 PM    6ESE CLAY CENTER          NE   60 MPH WIND GUST
09/08/97   CLAY                           LIMBS AT LEAST 4 INCHES
                                          IN DIAMETER BROKEN.

MLM

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:38 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
838 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    3W CLAY CENTER            NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
09/08/97   CLAY

MLM

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:38 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
838 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    3W CLAY CENTER            NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
09/08/97   CLAY

MLM

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:39 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
838 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    3W CLAY CENTER            NE   1.00 INCH HAIL
09/08/97   CLAY

MLM

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0810 PM    BRADSHAW                  NE   60 MPH WIND GUST
09/08/97   YORK                           TREE DAMAGE

MLM

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0810 PM    BRADSHAW                  NE   60 MPH WIND GUST
09/08/97   YORK                           TREE DAMAGE

MLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick	52 min
Sep 8, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton	58 min
Sep 8, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	58 min
Sep 8, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	60 min
Sep 8, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	63 min
Sep 8, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	63 min
Sep 8, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney	55 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.