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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2006, 3:56 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 6, 2006, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2006, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 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 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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 6, 3:53 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:53 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1144 AM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 071200- 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- 1144 AM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD...HOWEVER A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE UP TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MONDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED WITH THESE STORMS. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 2 PM AND 9 PM. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 206 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 KSZ006-007-061930- JEWELL-SMITH- 206 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR JEWELL AND SMITH COUNTIES... AT 204 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ESBON TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF LEBANON TO PORTIS...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BURR OAK BY 225 PM CDT IONIA BY 230 PM CDT DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. KB
Local storm report, Aug 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 14 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 6, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 50 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.