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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Hastings, NE

May 23, 2005Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2005, 10:34 PM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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: May 23, 2005, 10:34 PM CDT (03:34 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2005, 11:34 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 2256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 8:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 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
May 24, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.