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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Hastings, NE

June 24, 1997Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 10:04 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 24, 1997, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1997, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 3202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.2

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The text

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

751 
WUUS1 KGRI 250306 RRA
SVRGRI
KSC123-141-250345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1004 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN OSBORNE COUNTY
 
PEOPLE IN HUNTER CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND HAIL TO ONE INCH
BETWEEN 1015 AND 1030. TAKE SHELTER INDOORS NOW. AT 10 PM A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WASS INDICATED BY RADAR 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA
IN SOUTHEAST OSBORNE COUNTY NORTHEAST OF LURAY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST
AT 20 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.
 
KD

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, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 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, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	34 min
Jun 24, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm 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.