Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 2:39 PM CDT for Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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
- Sep 29, 1998, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1998, 3:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gosper County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Elwood, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Sep 29, 3:10 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 3:10 AM CDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 29, 11:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-301200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1135 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PART OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION....SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SYNOPSIS... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING ACROSS THE REGION WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MAINLY BE JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80...WHILE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH WILL INCREASE TOWARDS THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT ACCOMPANYING ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DEE
Special weather statement, Sep 29, 11:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-301200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1135 AM CDT TUE SEP 29 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PART OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION....SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SYNOPSIS... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING ACROSS THE REGION WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MAINLY BE JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80...WHILE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH WILL INCREASE TOWARDS THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT ACCOMPANYING ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 58 min |
| Sep 29, 8:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 56 min |
| Sep 29, 8:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 55 min |
| Sep 29, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 55 min |
| Sep 29, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.