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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2005, 10:00 PM CST for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 29, 2005, 10:00 PM CST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2005, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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, 4.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 Mar 29, 3:31 PM CST, 6 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 29, 3:31 PM CST, 6 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 331 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 .DISCUSSION...PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS SUBSIDED AND WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA ACROSS ALL ZONES. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NORTH WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH CAN STILL BE EXPECTED THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. && WESELY
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 29, 9:49 PM CST, 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 949 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ060>064-072>077-082>087-301200- ADAMS NE-BUFFALO NE-CLAY NE-DAWSON NE-FILLMORE NE-FRANKLIN NE- FURNAS NE-GOSPER NE-HALL NE-HAMILTON NE-HARLAN NE-JEWELL KS- KEARNEY NE-MITCHELL KS-NUCKOLLS NE-OSBORNE KS-PHELPS NE-PHILLIPS KS- ROOKS KS-SMITH KS-THAYER NE-WEBSTER NE-YORK NE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GRAND ISLAND...HASTINGS...HOLDREGE... KEARNEY...LEXINGTON...PHILLIPSBURG AND YORK 949 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A FEW ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY BEFORE 4 AM...WITH THE GREATEST THREATS BEING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND GUSTY WINDS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER...HOWEVER...IS NOT ANTICIPATED. IN ADDITION...A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT TONIGHT. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...REACHING SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH SOME GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG WINDS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE SUBSIDING DURING THE AFTERNOON. NEZ039>041-046>049-301200- GREELEY NE-HOWARD NE-MERRICK NE-NANCE NE-POLK NE-SHERMAN NE- VALLEY NE- 949 PM CST TUE MAR 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A FEW ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY BEFORE 2 AM...WITH THE GREATEST THREATS BEING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND GUSTY WINDS. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER...HOWEVER...IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LAWRENCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 43 min |
| Mar 29, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.