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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Hastings, NE

August 28, 2007Fillmore County, Thayer County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2007, 7:01 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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 28, 2007, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fillmore County, NE, Thayer County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2007-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 64 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2007-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 28, 5:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 5:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 12:02 PM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1202 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
291200-
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-
1202 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA BY
MID TO LATE AFTERNOON AND SLIDE TOWARDS THE EAST. THE GREATEST
THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE WILL PROGRESSIVELY SLIDE EAST OF HIGHWAY 281
BY THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE A POSSIBILITY
WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND
WINDS GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO
BE POSSIBLE...WHICH WILL CREATE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY SOUTH OF A CENTRAL
CITY...MINDEN...PHILLIPISBURG LINE. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

WESELY

In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 6:49 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
649 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

NEZ077-086-087-290045-
FILLMORE-NUCKOLLS-THAYER-
649 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR FILLMORE...NUCKOLLS AND THAYER COUNTIES...

AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OAK...OR 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS...
AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DAVENPORT BY 655 PM CDT
  CARLETON BY 710 PM CDT
  SHICKLEY BY 715 PM CDT
  BELVIDERE BY 720 PM CDT
  BRUNING BY 725 PM CDT

SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 55 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.

HEINLEIN

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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.