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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Hastings, NE

July 26, 2001Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2001, 11:47 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 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 26, 2001, 11:47 PM CDT (04:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2001, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2739 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2001-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
2739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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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 Jul 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 9 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper51 min
Jul 26, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhelps43 min
Jul 26, 11:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDRooks6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.