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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Hastings, NE

June 18, 2001Buffalo County, Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2001, 5:46 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 18, 2001, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 6:13 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Amherst, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 18, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 18, 2:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
210 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001

CDFNT PROGRESSING ACRS NWRN NEB THIS AFTN WITH PREFRONTAL TROF AND
DRYLINE OVR SWRN NEB/WRN KS.  STATIONARY FRONT/850 SHEAR AXIS FM SRN
MN...ACRS IA ...THRU THE SRN ZONES OF THE GID CWA IS THE FIRST AREA
OF SVR CONCERN AS THE 13 TO 15 DEG C CAP AT 700 MB ON THE MRNG UAA
WL BE ERODED WITH APPCHG THERMAL TROF AS WELL AS STEADY
FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING.  LAPS CAPES WERE APPROACHING 3K J/KG AS OF
18Z FOR ZONES TO THE E OF ROUTE 281...WHERE SFC DPS ARE ABOUT 10 DEG
HIGHER THAN WRN ZONES.  MID LVL LAPSE RATES ARE 8-9 C/KM...SO
ANYTHING THAT DOES POP WL PROBABLY GO RAPIDLY SVR.  WL STAY WITH
LIKELY POPS NR THIS BOUNDARY...WHICH WL REQUIRE A REORIENTATION OF
THE ZONES.  EXPECT WIND ADVISORY CONDITIONS TO SAG S/EWD WITH
BOUNDARY.  WINDY MENTION SHOULD HANDLE THE SOON-TO-BE-FORMER-
ADVISORY ZONES.

OVRNGT...SD LOW WL MOV EWD AND DRAG THE CDFNT THRU THE AREA.  WL
MAINTAIN CHC POPS FOR THE FRONTAL PASSAGE.  ONGOING TEMPS IN THE MID
50S N TO ARND 60 S LK OK...AND ARE SPPRTED BY A SPLIT-GUIDANCE
APPROACH.

TUE AND WED...SWD PROGRESS OF FRONT WL DEFINE ALL...FOR NOW...
CDFNT WL SAG INTO KANSAS ON TUE BEFORE STALLING AS LOW DVLPS OVR
SWRN KS.  POPS WL BE REQUIRED BY TUE NGT...MAINLY FOR THE SRN CWA AS
ERLY FLOW DVLPS AND IS SPPRTED BY PROGGED DVRGNC IN THE RRQ.  LAPSE
RATES ARE NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE...THUS SHRA WORDING WITH TSTMS.  IN
GENL FOR THE AREA...TEMPS WL SPLIT GUIDANCE BUT WITH RANGE REDUCED
ON WED WITH SOME LLVL CLDINESS AS PER RTNG DPS/LOW COND PRES DEFS.

IN THE EFP...MRF/CANADIAN AND SUPPORTING CAST OF MDLS CONT TO
PRODUCE THE BLDG RIDGE SOLN.  WL MAINTAIN THE DRY TREND AS THE
FRONT IS PUSHED SWD...BUT BREAK UP THE CURRENT PROG FOR WARMING
TEMPS WITH ABOVE SEASONAL NMBRS FOR THE WEEKEND.

.GID...NONE.

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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 17, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	65 min
Jun 17, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	46 min
Jun 17, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	37 min
Jun 17, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	56 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.