Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 6:33 PM CDT for Adams County, Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 24, 1997, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hastings, 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
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 24, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE ...RETRANSMISSION... 258 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION CONTINUE TO BE FORECAST PROBLEM. POSSIBLE FFA IN KS CWA. LATEST SFC MAP SHOWED COLD FRONT FROM NE NEB TO NW KS. 65-70 DEWPOINTS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. LITTLE ACTIVITY ON UEX 88D. SAT PIX SHOW CLOUDS GENRALLY S OF I80. ALOFT JET STREAM TO THE NORTH WITH SERIES OF S/WS MOVING THRU THE FLOW. PLENTY OF MOISTURE AT 8H. MODELS SIMILIAR IN THE BIG PICTURE KEEPING ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE NRN TIER. APPEARS TO ME THE MODELS...ESPECIALLY THE NGM WANT TO HAVE THE FRONT NOW PASSING THRU THE CWA TO HANG UP SOMEWHERE IN S.C. NEB OR N.C KS. QPF FROM AFOS PRODUCTS KEEP 0.25 CONTOUR CLOSE TO THE CWA THRU 12Z AND HRLY FCST SOUNDING FROM ETA SHOWS HSI WITH 1.60 THRU 18Z WED. NATIONAL PRODUCTS TALKING ABOUT MCS FORMING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY AND WITH THE HEAVY RAIN THAT ALREADY FELL IN THE SE PTN OF THE CWA THIS WOULD ONLY FURTHER AGGRIVATE THE FLOODING THAT IS OCCURING. TEMPERATURES NEXT COUPLE DAYS SHOULD BE COOLER WITH EAST TO NORTHEAST FLOW AND CAA. SUGGEST WE KEEP POPS IN TONIGHT FOR AT LEAST EAST OF HSI/GRI AND S OF I80 AS WELL AS KS...THEN MAYBE RIGHT ALONG THE BORDER WED AM. IF THE MODELS ARE CORRECT WED SHOULD SEE RAIN IN KS AND MAY NEED FFA FOR JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. GRI MB 067/075/064/080 3-00 HBR WB 066/075/065/080 6300 ODX BB 065/075/062/080 -000 LXN BB 065/075/063/080 -000 BLT TB 068/078/067/080 6400 GRIFFITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 3:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Jewell | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.