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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

July 25, 2000Franklin County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2000, 1:29 AM CDT for Franklin 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: Jul 25, 2000, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2000, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGID 250633
FFWGID
NEC061-250930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 AM CDT

* AT 125 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
  HEAVY RAIN 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILDRETH...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH
  OF KEARNEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE...

  HILDRETH
  UPLAND
  BLOOMINGTON
  FRANKLIN
  RIVERTON

RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY
FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY AND ANOTHER THREE INCHES OF
HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 3 AM.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

$$

FAY

LAT...LON 4003 9905 4002 9875 4031 9872 4034 9907

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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, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Kearney	5 hr
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, 1:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	29 min
Jul 25, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	46 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2000 Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.