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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2006, 11:31 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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 20, 2006, 11:31 PM CDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2006, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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 20, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 3231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 Jun 20, 7:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 7:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 758 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 .DISCUSSION...UPDATED THE ZONE FORECAST FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH BOX 524 ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE HIGH PLAINS OF COLORADO...KANSAS...AND NEBRASKA UNTIL 3 AM CDT AND 2 AM MDT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 257 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006) SHORT TERM...SURGE OF SOUTHWEST WINDS AND DRY AIR OVER SOUTHERN CWFA HAS SENT TEMPERATURES OVER 100 DEGREES THERE. WEAK BOUNDARY HUNG TO THE NORTH...AND MOISTURE HAS POOLED ALONG IT THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CWFA...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S. TONIGHT...MAIN ISSUE IS TRACKING THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE FRONT RANGE EAST. CHEYENNE RIDGE SEEMS TO BISECT PRETTY GOOD LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FROM WESTERN NEBRASKA INTO NORTHEAST COLORADO. DIURNAL STORMS FIRING OFF THE HIGH TERRAIN...BUT NOT EASY TO PICK OUT ANY DISTINCT WAVE JUST YET. AREA IN FAVORED RIGHT REAR QUAD OF A H25 JET NOW...AND THAT MAY BE ENOUGH. WHAT SEEMS REASONABLE IS THUNDERSTORMS TO GEL INTO SOME SORT OF MCS LATE THIS EVENING AND IMPACT THE CWFA OVERNIGHT. HAVE FAVORED A MIDDLE GROUND POP OVER THE MIDDLE CWFA. EXPECT THINGS TO HOLD OFF AS A PRETTY STRONG CAP IS STILL IN PLACE...AS EVIDENCE ON THE 19Z LBF SOUNDING. MASSIVE CAP. MOP UP DUTY EARLY WEDNESDAY...AS CONVECTION HELPS PUSH THE FRONT SOUTH. NEXT ROUND OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT THE KANSAS COUNTIES MORE SO THURSDAY NIGHT...AND THE NAM IS HOLDING ONTO A SLOW MOVING ALL DAY RAIN EVENT. HAVE CONTINUED WITH THE LOWER TEMPERATURES OF HIGHS NEAR 80. RIGHT REAR QUAD OF H250 QUITE NICELY LOCATED AS WELL...AND THAT TENDS TO BE VERY EFFICIENT IN PRECIPITATION ENHANCEMENT. LONG TERM...12Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE PERIOD BEGINS WITH STRONG RIDGING ALOFT OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. RESULTING IN A WEST-NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVING FROM CENTRAL NEBRASKA TO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE THROUGHOUT THE DAY WILL INDUCE A LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NEBRASKA WITH THETA-E ADVECTION ENSUING IN THE SAME GENERAL VICINITY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY RISE INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S. A LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE EVENING HOURS WILL INTERACT WITH THE ADDITIONAL MOISTURE IN THE AREA AND THIS WILL CAUSE WIDELY SCATTERED NOCTURNAL CONVECTION TO ROLL OFF OF THE HIGH PLAINS AND PASS THROUGH OUR REGION FRIDAY NIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTH. THIS FRONT WILL SLIDE ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA ON SATURDAY AND THIS WILL CONTINUE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. IT WILL ALSO BRING SOMEWHAT LOWER DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S RANGE. CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION WILL WIND DOWN SATURDAY NIGHT AS A STABLE LOW LEVEL NORTHERLY FLOW PUSHES HIGHER THETA-E/DEW POINT VALUES TO THE SOUTH. THE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY PERIOD IS EXPECTED TO BE DRY AS THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. GROWS NORTH AND WESTWARD WHICH WILL CAUSE OUR UPPER FLOW TO BECOME MORE NORTHERLY. THE POST-FRONTAL STABLE LOW LEVEL NORTHERLY FLOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE DAY ON SUNDAY AND DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE VERY SIMILAR TO VALUES SEEN ON SATURDAY. LITTLE CHANGE WILL BE SEEN IN DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE MID 80S BOTH DAYS. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. && HEINLEIN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 810 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 211200- 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- 810 PM CDT TUE JUN 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA AFTER 10 PM...AND SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT. THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...ALONG WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY CONTINUED CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED AFTER 10 PM. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) HEINLEIN
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 43 min |
| Jun 20, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 20, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 58 min |
| Jun 21, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.