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Flood Watch 4, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flood watch at Aug 1, 2007, 1:12 PM CDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2007, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2007, 4:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Flood severity
- None
All 30 counties
Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1011 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Aug 1, 12:54 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 12:54 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1203 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2007 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- 1203 PM CDT WED AUG 1 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A SLIGHT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST MAINLY THIS EVENING ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. THE HIGHEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST WEST OF AN OSBORNE KANSAS TO HASTINGS NEBRASKA TO SILVER CREEK NEBRASKA LINE. LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM ANY STORMS THAT DO BECOME SEVERE. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE. THIS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND MAY CAUSE FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY. THIS MAY RESULT IN A CONTINUED CHANCE OF FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ON GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...AN INTERMITTENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO EXIST FRIDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT ALONG WITH TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY WEST OF AN OSBORNE KANSAS TO HASTINGS NEBRASKA TO SILVER CREEK NEBRASKA LINE. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 1, 7:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 54 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 1, 5:48 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | GID | Webster | 65 days |
| Aug 1, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 24 min |
| Aug 1, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 28 min |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Nebraska, 2007Flood Watches in Kansas, 2007Every flood watch in 2007
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.