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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Hastings, NE

August 30, 2001Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2001, 3:40 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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: Aug 30, 2001, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Mitchell County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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 Aug 30, 3:05 PM CDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:05 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 30, 11:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-302100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK - SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1115 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2001

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TODAY OR TONIGHT...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING BRIEF...HEAVY DOWNPOURS TO AREAS
GENERALLY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6 INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS
WILL GRADUALLY DIE OFF DURING THE REST OF THE DAY. NO SEVERE WEATHER
IS EXPECTED.

ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ALONG AND SOUTH OF
THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BORDER THIS EVENING...AND PERSIST INTO THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. AGAIN...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED WITH ANY
OF THESE STORMS.

GURNEY

Local storm report, Aug 30, 2:52 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 30, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	49 min
Aug 30, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2001 Every 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.