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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Hastings, NE

August 25, 2006Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 25, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2006, 6:49 PM CDT
In force
34 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 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1035 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2006-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1035 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell54 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.