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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Hastings, NE

June 24, 1998Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 6:59 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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, 1998, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 61 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 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Osborne, KS

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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 265 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: 493 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -467 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:45 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	44 min
Jun 23, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	62 min
Jun 23, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	51 min
Jun 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	43 min
Jun 23, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	37 min
Jun 23, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	49 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	60 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	60 min
Jun 23, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	48 min
Jun 23, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell	25 min
Jun 23, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.