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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2006, 5:41 PM CDT for Clay County, Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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 1, 2006, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2006, 6:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, NE, Hamilton County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 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 1, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 156 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2006 .SHORT TERM...MAIN PROBLEM IN THE NEAR TERM IS RAIN CHANCES TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AFTERNOON SURFACE ANALYSIS PLACED A STATIONARY FRONT JUST NORTHWEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AS SHORTWAVES RIDE ACROSS THE AREA. IT APPEARS MUCH OF THE AREA HAS A GOOD CHANCE OF SEEING RAINFALL TONIGHT AS THE BOUNDARY GRADUALLY SINKS ITS WAY SOUTH AND THE LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES. CURRENT POPS LOOK GOOD AND MADE ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. DESPITE MARGINAL DEEP LAYER SHEAR...THERE DOES STILL APPEAR TO BE AN ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TONIGHT...MAINLY IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS DUE TO INVERTED-V TYPE SOUNDINGS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE A POSSIBILITY ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES. DIFFERENCES THEN APPEAR ON WEDNESDAY BETWEEN THE 12Z GFS AND NAM ON THE PLACEMENT OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND H85 FRONT. THE NAM IS MORE PROGRESSIVE AND PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES SOUTH MORE QUICKLY THAN THE GFS. THE NAM IS ALSO FASTER IN BRINGING ACROSS THE H7 TROUGH AND ITS ASSOCIATED FORCING. IN EITHER CASE...IT DOES APPEAR THE RAIN CHANCES ARE STILL GOOD ON WEDNESDAY...AND HAVE INCREASED POPS ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA...ESPECIALLY THE SOUTHERN HALF. WILL THEN HOLD ONTO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN THE SOUTH...BUT THEN GO DRY ON THURSDAY AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. UPPER RIDGE AXIS TO OUR SOUTHEAST BEGINS TO BUILD BACK TO THE WEST AND NORTH DURING THE EXTENDED PORTION OF THE FORECAST. STRENGTH OF RIDGE AXIS AND PLACEMENT IS MODEL DEPENDENT WITH ECMWF KEEPING RIDGE MORE TO OUR SOUTH THAN THE GFS. UNTIL RIDGE AXIS MOVES FURTHER NORTH AND WEST ONTO THE PLAINS...THE CHANCE FOR A TSTM CANNOT BE COMPLETELY RULED OUT AND HAVE ADDED SOME LOW POPS TO THE WEEKEND IN OUR NEBRASKA COUNTIES...WHICH BLENDS WITH NEIGHBORING OFFICES. KS COUNTIES REMAIN DRY ATTM. OVERALL TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS OR JUST ABOVE. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. && CK/CF
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 2:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 249 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2006 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 021200- 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- 249 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING...WITH CHANCES CONTINUING THROUGH THE NIGHT. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH THE PRIMARY HAZARD. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE AS THE STORMS TRACK OVER THE SAME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. INTERMITTENT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST DURING THIS TIME FRAME. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE IN ANY THUNDERSTORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) 06
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:37 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 537 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2006 NEZ063-076-012330- CLAY-HAMILTON- 537 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHWESTERN CLAY AND SOUTHWESTERN HAMILTON COUNTIES... AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HARVARD...OR 12 MILES EAST OF HASTINGS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GILTNER BY 550 PM CDT STOCKHAM BY 555 PM CDT AURORA BY 605 PM CDT SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. AWJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.