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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

August 14, 2001Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2001, 10:52 PM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 4 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
Aug 14, 2001, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2001, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Phelps County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 87 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KGID 150356
FFWGRI
NEC137-150745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1052 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 AM CDT

* AT 1050 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
  HEAVY RAIN FROM LOOMIS TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FUNK...OR FROM 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HOLDREGE TO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THIS WARNING INCLUDE FUNK.

LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF 
LOOMIS ALONG COUNTY ROAD G.  RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN IN THIS AREA 
WILL CONTRIBUTE TO RISING WATER IN THIS AREA.

IN ADDITION...RADAR ESTIMATES 2 TO 2 AND A HALF INCHES OF RAINFALL 
BETWEEN ATLANTA AND HOLDREGE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS 
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT 
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS 
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL 
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

$$

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LAT...LON 4047 9959 4035 9933 4053 9918 4068 9950
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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.