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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2006, 12:23 AM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 3, 2006, 12:23 AM CDT (05:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2006, 1:08 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osborne County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 May 2, 2:51 PM CDT, 9 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:51 PM CDT, 9 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 251 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 .SHORT TERM...LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY FROM THIS AFTERNOON REVEALS A STRONG UPPER CYCLONE SEEN SPINNING EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS WITH THE TAIL END OF THE WAVE RIDING ACROSS THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS CENTRAL SD WITH A COLD FRONT SAGGING BACK SOUTHWEST INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA WHILE A DRYLINE IS SEEN EXTENDING SOUTH...SOUTHWEST INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND WESTERN KANSAS. AHEAD OF THIS DRYLINE...SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS RETURNING NORTH INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS WITH SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE LOWER 50S INTO NORTHERN KANSAS. HOWEVER...THE DEPTH OF THIS MOISTURE REMAINS FAIRLY SHALLOW AS IS EVIDENT BY DEWPOINTS DROPPING THIS AFTERNOON BACK INTO THE UPPER 40S TO NEAR 50 AS THE MIXING DEPTH HAS INCREASED VIA HEATING. NEVERTHELESS...A FAIR AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY IS PRESENT AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE WITH RUC ANALYSIS SHOWING CAPE VALUES IN THE 500-1000 J/KG RANGE AND A SMALL CU FIELD IS PRESENT FROM SOUTHEAST SD INTO CENTRAL NEB. AN ACTIVE WEATHER NIGHT LOOKS TO BE ON TAP FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEB AND NORTH CENTRAL KS AS THE AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT BEGINS TO SURGE SOUTHEAST AND MERGE WITH THE DRYLINE ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS. ALTHOUGH CAPPING LOOKS TO BE RATHER STRONG THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON...INCREASING LARGE SCALE ASCENT VIA THE UPPER WAVE MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO ERODE THE CAP BY EARLY EVENING. UNDER THIS SETUP...EXPECT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP INITIALLY ALONG THE MERGING COLD FRONT AND DRYLINE OVER CENTRAL NEBRASKA BUT THEN EXPAND SOUTH...SOUTHWEST INTO THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA DURING THE LATE EVENING TO OVERNIGHT HOURS. GIVEN THE HIGH LCL ENVIRONMENT AND THE FACT MUCH OF THE CONVECTION WILL BE WELL AFTER DARK...NOT ANTICIPATING A HUGE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT ALTHOUGH A FEW HAIL EVENTS IS POSSIBLE. THE COLD FRONT THEN PUSHES QUICKLY THROUGH THE AREA AND IS SHOWN TO BE SOUTHEAST OF BELOIT BY SUNRISE ON WEDNESDAY. THIS SHOULD TAKE THE CHANCE OF PRECIP SOUTH OF THE AREA AS WELL ALTHOUGH A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS SOUTH OF A GENEVA TO OSBORNE LINE WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH MID MORNING. THE REMAINDER OF WEDNESDAY LOOKS TO BE COOLER BUT DRY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S TO NEAR 70 FOR HIGHS. AS THE REGION HEADS TOWARD WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...ANOTHER UPPER WAVE IS SHOWN TO SLIDE SOUTHEAST INTO THE REGION ALTHOUGH ANY SIGN OF DEEPER BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE WILL BE SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. HOWEVER...THIS WAVE WILL PRODUCE ENOUGH MID LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS TO POSSIBLY SQUEEZE OUT A FEW SHOWERS MAINLY OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE MUCH COOLER ON THURSDAY AS WELL WITH CLOUD COVER LIMITING HEATING BIG TIME. WILL AIM HIGHS INTO THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S. .LONG TERM...12Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS WILL BE WEATHER SYSTEMS THAT MOVE THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY AND AGAIN SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY. ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME MOISTURE AROUND THE AREA...THERE IS A WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND EXPECT THAT THERE WILL BE JUST ENOUGH SUBSIDENCE TO NOT HAVE PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. ONCE THAT TROUGH MOVES THROUGH...A WEAK UPPER RIDGE BUILDS TO THE WEST AND THE SURFACE HIGH MAINTAINS A PRESENCE IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THERE IS SOME RESIDUAL MOISTURE...SO EXPECT THERE MAY BE A FEW CLOUDS ACROSS THE AREA. THE NEXT SYSTEM STARTS TO AFFECT THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT. A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPS LATE SUNDAY TO THE WEST WITH STRONG SOUTH WINDS AHEAD OF IT. THIS SHOULD BRING IN SOME MOISTURE. THE UPPER LOW MOVES INTO THE REGION SUNDAY EVENING. THE BEST MOISTURE APPEARS TO BE TO THE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA...BUT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR THE LOCATION OF THE SYSTEM AS THIS TIME NEARS. EARLY IN THE WEEK...A ZONAL FLOW REGIME IS ACROSS THE AREA. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. && AWJ/JCB
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 62 min |
| May 2, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 66 min |
| May 2, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 51 min |
| May 2, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 54 min |
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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.