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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

June 19, 2000Adams County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2000, 10:25 PM CDT for Adams County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 19, 2000, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Adams County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGID 200332
FFWGID
NEC001-099-200630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1025 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 130 AM CDT

* AT 1024 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER THE AREA.

LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...

  NORMAN
  HEARTWELL
  ROSELAND
  AYR
  KENESAW
  HASTINGS
  MINDEN

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 44 ABOUT 5
MILES NORTH OF HIGHWAY 6.  CARS HAVE BEEN WASHED INTO THE DITCH
ALONG THE ROAD.  NUMEROUS CREEKS AND DITCHES HAVE FILLED WITH WATER
AND ARE OVERUNNING ROADS IN SEVERAL PLACES.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND
CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND
PROPERTY.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY...AND YOU MAY BE SWEPT AWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER
SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PRIOR SMALL STREAM AND URBAN ADVISORY FOR
ADAMS AND KEARNEY COUNTIES.  A SMALL STREAM AND URBAN ADVISORY
REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HARLAN COUNTY.

$$

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LAT...LON 4063 9917 4035 9916 4037 9828 4071 9831

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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 19, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	59 min
Jun 19, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phelps	42 min
Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Valley	45 min
Jun 19, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	40 min
Jun 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	59 min
Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Greeley	51 min
Jun 19, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	41 min
Jun 19, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	55 min
Jun 19, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	32 min
Jun 19, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams	46 min
Jun 19, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	26 min
Jun 19, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	65 min
Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	45 min
Jun 19, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	52 min
Jun 19, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	43 min
Jun 19, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams	37 min
Jun 19, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	43 min
Jun 19, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	41 min
Jun 19, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	40 min
Jun 19, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	61 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.