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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Hastings, NE

July 9, 2005Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2005, 10:27 AM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 9, 2005, 10:27 AM CDT (15:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2005, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Furnas County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:28 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 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.

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: 1400 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -418 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 9, 2:52 AM CDT, 7 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:52 AM CDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
252 AM CDT SAT JUL 9 2005

.DISCUSSION...SHORT TERM CONCERN WILL BE IF THUNDERSTORMS POPS OVER
OUR CWA OR STAY WEST THIS MORNING...THEN NEXT CHANCE FOR PRECIP
LOOKS TO BE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY.

CURRENT WATER VAPOR LOOP OVER THE CONUS INTERESTING AS THREE OF THE
FOUR CORNERS WITH INTERESTING FEATURES...THE LOW SPINNING INTO THE
NORTHEAST...THE APPROACHING WAVE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...AND THE
HURRICANE IN THE SOUTHEAST. THE MAIN PLAYER FOR US WILL BE THE WAVE
TO THE NW AS 50 TO 80 METER HEIGHT FALLS NOTED ON THE UPPER AIR
ANALYSIS AT 00Z. THIS WILL KEEP RIDGE FROM SETTING UP LONG TERM
OVER CENTRAL PLAINS AND WILL HELP DRIVE FRONT THROUGH HERE MONDAY
AFTERNOON/EVENING TIME FRAME.

IN THE NEAR TERM...LOW LEVEL JET RUNNING 30-40 KTS FIRST FEW LEVELS
OF KUEX VAD WIND PROFILE. ABOVE THAT WINDS VEER TO THE WEST AT 15-
20 KTS AND THEN NORTH AT ONLY 15 KTS BY 14000 FEET.  BOTH RWD AND
MRR PROFILERS DOWN AT PRESENT WHICH IS TOO BAD AS NAM DEPICTS LOW
LEVEL JET TO SET UP JUST TO OUR WEST BY 06Z WITH NOSE OF JET INTO
THE SW CWA THROUGH 12Z AND WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO CONFIRM IT WITH
REAL TIME DATA.  06Z NAM ALSO PLACES 850 THETA E RIDGE OVER WEST TO
CENTRAL CWA BETWEEN 09-12Z. WE HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF CELLS POP UP NEAR
MCCOOK PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT GIVEN THE LIGHT
STEERING WINDS AND THEY HAVE REMAINED FAIRLY WEAK. GIVEN LAST NIGHTS
ACTIVITY WHICH DID NOT OCCUR UNTIL AFTER 330 AM CST AND THEN STORMS
INTENSIFIED RAPIDLY WILL HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON THESE. MAIN
THREAT WOULD BE LOCALIZED FLOODING.

WILL CUT OFF DISCUSSION HERE AND GET REST OF FORECAST PROCESSED AS
FIRST CELL HAS POPPED IN OUR CWA IN FURNAS COUNTY.

ONCE WE GET PAST THIS MORNING THINGS SHOULD BE MAINLY HOT AND DRY FOR
A COUPLE OF DAYS UNTIL NEXT SYSTEM NOTED ABOVE.

&&

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

&&

EWALD

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 5:13 AM CDT, 5 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
Jul 8, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	25 min
Jul 9, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	46 min
Jul 9, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	35 min
Jul 9, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.