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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1998, 6:13 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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 8, 1998, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1998, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, KS
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 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 8, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 230 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1998 MAIN CONCERN IS SHORT TERM CONVECTION. QUICKLY...SURFACE LOW MOVING/LOOKING MORE SO LIKE THE AVN TO ME. 15Z RUC NOT TOO BAD. SUNSHINE DESTABILIZED KANSAS ZONES QUICKLY AND MORE CONVECTION TRYING TO BUILD ALONG WAVE BACK TO MCK. OTHER ELEVATED CONVECTION MOVING NORTHEAST AT TIME. OVERALL MODEL DIFFERENCES LARGE IN LATER TERMS...BUT ETA/AVN DONE THE JOB THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. BELIEVE NGM NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF FRONTAL POSITION AT 48HRS. TONIGHT...WILL CONTINUE WITH THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SOUTH AND...IF THE RUC VERIFIES LOW INTO EASTERN ZONES BY 00Z...THE THREAT MAY STILL BE WARRANTED THERE AS WELL. WILL TAPER FROM WEST TO EAST OVERNIGHT WILL LIMITED CLEARING. STRONG DOWNWARD MOTION MAY GO A LONG WAY TO CLEAR THINGS OUT BY MORNING. BELIEVE A BREAK IS IN STORE TUESDAY BEFORE STRONG ISENTROPIC LIFT ON I310 LAYER AT 42HRS ON AVN/ETA TEAMS WILL UPPER SHORTWAVE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AS BOTH THE ETA/AVN FORECAST 25 TO 45 KT LOW LEVEL WIND FIELD OVERNIGHT. H7-500 LAPSE RATES OF FORECAST TO 8 C/KM AT 48HRS. WILL LINGER PRECIPITATION INTO WEDNESDAY PER AVN POPS. GRI TB 052/075/058/078/058 +133 MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Nance | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.