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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Hastings, NE

June 16, 2005Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2005, 11:54 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 16, 2005, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2005, 12:48 AM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Phillips County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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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 16, 3:13 PM CDT, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:13 PM CDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
313 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

.DISCUSSION...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GREW UP THIS MORNING OVER CENTRAL NEBRASKA
AS A MCV FROM LAST NIGHTS CONVECTION STALLED OVERHEAD.  TROUGHING
ALOFT ALSO MAKING A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR A WIDENING AREA OF
SHOWERS WHICH REALLY TOOK OFF THIS AFTERNOON. OVERNIGHT THE RIDGE
BUILDS TO THE WEST AND AND A VORTMAX DIVES SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA.

THE IMPACT ON THE FORECAST HAS BEEN TO SUPPRESS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT ACROSS MUCH OF NEBRASKA.  THE FOCUS THEN TURNS TO OUR
KANSAS COUNTIES. WHERE MID 60 DEW POINTS AND AND TEMPERATURES IN
THE MID 80S EXIST.  CAPE VALUES OF OVER 3000 J/KG EXIST ACROSS OUR
KANSAS COUNTIES. 18Z SOUNDINGS FROM KLBF AND KDDC ARE
INTERESTING AND SHOW THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  WIND PROFILES
FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES...PROBLEM IS THE CAP SO WE WILL NEED TO
WAIT PERHAPS ANOTHER HOUR OR MORE BEFORE STORMS FIRE THERE.
ACROSS NEBRASKA LOOK FOR THE ACTIVITY TO DIMINISH THIS EVENING FOR
ALL EXCEPT FAR SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWEST COUNTIES.

FOR FRI...LOW CLOUDS SHOULD ERODE ON S FLOW. BROAD AREA OF HIGH
PRESSURE AT THE SFC WILL REMAIN OVER WI/MN. AS SFC LOW OVER MT AND
LEE TROUGH INTENSIFIES...PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL INCREASE AND BRING
BREEZY CONDITIONS BY LATE IN THE DAY TO WESTERN ZONES. H5 RIDGE AXIS
BUILDS IN WITH SUBSIDENCE...AND DRY FCST CONTINUED THROUGH SAT....
ALTHOUGH WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE IN PLACE...CANNOT RULE OUT SOME
STRATUS SAT MORN...ALTHOUGH EASTERN ZONES LOOK TO REMAIN MOSTLY
CLEAR WITH BL RH BELOW 70 PERCENT. IN THE EXTENDED...AT H5...
UKMET/ECMWF/GFS BUILD RIDGE THROUGH SUN AND MON. 12Z GFS/NAM BRINGS
IN THICKNESSES OF 585DAM BY SUN EVENING WHICH SHOULD BRING THE ENTIRE
CWA ABOVE 90 FOR DAYTIME HIGHS. H7 TEMPS ABOVE 14C...AND NAM MODEL
SOUNDINGS CAP ATM NEAR H8 WITH TEMPS 22-23C. DRY FCST CONTINUES
ALTHOUGH CHANCES FOR FROPA INCREASING WITH OOZ/12Z GFS RUNS. SOUTHERN
EXTENT OF NORTHERN STREAM SYSTEM QUESTIONABLE...BUT IF FRONT DOES
MAKE IT INTO THE CWA LOOKS LIKE MON NIGHT/TUES TIME-FRAME. THIS WOULD
BRING CHANCES FOR T...ALTHOUGH GRIDS CURRENTLY LEFT DRY. TEMPS ON MON
WILL AGAIN BE ABOVE CLIMO...AND REMAINDER OF EXTENDED DEPENDENT ON
STRENGTH OF RIDGE AND INFLUENCE OF FRONT. IF FRONT MAKES IT
THROUGH...BOUNDARY WILL PRESENT CHANCES FOR T TUES AND WED WITH TEMPS
NEAR CLIMO. CONTINUED DRY FCST FOR NOW.

&&

.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
KS...NONE.

&&

HIRSCH/CONNOLLY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 10:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
618 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0615 PM     HAIL             JEWELL                  39.67N 98.15W
06/16/2005  1.75 INCH        JEWELL             KS   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

KB

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
707 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0705 PM     HAIL             3 N BELOIT              39.51N 98.11W
06/16/2005  2.75 INCH        MITCHELL           KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

KB

Local storm report, Jun 16, 7:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
719 PM CDT THU JUN 16 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0717 PM     HAIL             BELOIT                  39.47N 98.11W
06/16/2005  1.75 INCH        MITCHELL           KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

KB

Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 11:09 PM CDT, 45 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
Jun 16, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	67 min
Jun 16, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	42 min
Jun 16, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	56 min
Jun 17, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	36 min
Jun 16, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	66 min

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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.