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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2005, 6:10 PM CDT for Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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 28, 2005, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2005, 6:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gosper County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 2:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 2:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1204 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 291200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE- SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK- GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 1204 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY CONTAIN QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) WESELY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 12:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1221 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 NEZ039>041-046>049-061>064-075>077-086>087-290100- ADAMS NE-BUFFALO NE-CLAY NE-FILLMORE NE-GREELEY NE- HALL NE-HAMILTON NE-HOWARD NE-MERRICK NE-NANCE NE- NUCKOLLS NE-POLK NE-SHERMAN NE-THAYER NE-VALLEY NE- YORK NE- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 750 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 16 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA GREELEY HOWARD MERRICK NANCE SHERMAN VALLEY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA POLK YORK IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ADAMS BUFFALO CLAY FILLMORE HALL HAMILTON NUCKOLLS THAYER THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...AURORA...CENTRAL CITY... CLAY CENTER...DESHLER...EDGAR...EXETER...FAIRFIELD...FAIRMONT... FULLERTON...GENEVA...GENOA...GRAND ISLAND...HARVARD...HASTINGS... HEBRON...KEARNEY...LITCHFIELD...LOUP CITY...NELSON...ORD... OSCEOLA...POLK...SCOTIA...SHELBY...SPALDING...ST. PAUL... STROMSBURG...SUPERIOR...SUTTON...WOLBACH AND YORK. WESELY
Local storm report, Aug 28, 2:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 40 min |
| Aug 27, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 48 min |
| Aug 28, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 53 min |
| Aug 28, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 40 min |
| Aug 28, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2005Every 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.