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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

July 25, 2000Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 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: Jul 25, 2000, 1:15 AM CDT (06:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 2383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGID 250616
FFWGID
NEC099-251100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
115 AM CDT TUE JUL 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 110 AM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER KEARNEY COUNTY...
  OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY. ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE
  INTO THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY AND MOVE ACROSS THE SAME
  AREA. ALL OF THE THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS WILL MOVE
  SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE COUNTY THROUGH 600 AM.

DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD ALREADY FALLEN
IN WESTERN PART OF KEARNEY COUNTY NEAR AXTELL. ANOTHER LARGE
THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA BETWEEN 1 AM AND 3 AM. THIS
STORM IS LIKELY TO DROP FROM 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 2
HOURS.

PEOPLE IN KEARNEY COUNTY...AN IN PARTICULAR THE WESTERN HALF
OF THE COUNTY...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POTENTIALLY RAPID RISES IN
LOCAL CREEKS AND STREAMS. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THE CROOKED CREEK...DRY
CREEK OR LOST CREEK IN NORTHWEST KEARNEY COUNTY...YOU ARE IN A
POTENTIALLY FLASH FLOOD SITUATION. YOU NEED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IF FLASH FLOODING THREATENS YOU.

COUNTY ROADS AND BRIDGES MAY WASHED OUT OR UNDER WATER TONIGHT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGER OF FLOODING.

$$

MORITZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	53 min
Jul 24, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	44 min
Jul 25, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	42 min
Jul 25, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	63 min
Jul 25, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	29 min
Jul 25, 12:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Dawson	37 min
Jul 25, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	45 min
Jul 25, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	49 min
Jul 25, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	35 min
Jul 25, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	56 min
Jul 25, 1:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phelps	41 min
Jul 25, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	50 min
Jul 25, 1:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Franklin	3 hr
Jul 25, 1:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	29 min
Jul 25, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.