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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2008, 5:40 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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 6, 2008, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dawson County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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 6, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 468 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 6, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 308 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072-073-071200- VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO- HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS- 308 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTH OF A LINE FROM YORK...TO KEARNEY...TO ARAPAHOE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS POSTED UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL SLIDE INTO THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE...WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST... AND SHOULD DIMINISH IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST FOR THE OUTLOOK AREA THURSDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...THE PROSPECTS FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER APPEAR LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ074>077-082>087-071200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY- FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 308 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM YORK...TO HASTINGS...TO ARAPAHOE... AND FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED BY MID EVENING OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND THEN INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS BY LATE THIS EVENING. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR LIKELY...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN HAZARDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN SOME AREAS. THE MAIN TIME FRAME FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS IS BETWEEN 7 PM AND 2 AM TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS RETURN TO THE FORECAST FOR THE OUTLOOK AREA THURSDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...THE PROSPECTS FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER APPEAR LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 6, 4:43 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 443 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 NEZ060-062245- DAWSON- 443 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR... NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MAXWELL...OR 49 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GOTHENBURG BY 520 PM CDT QUARTER SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN LINCOLN COUNTY. PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED IF THE STORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS. PFANNKUCH
Special weather statement, May 6, 5:08 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 6, 5:23 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 523 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 NEZ039-046-060-061-062330- BUFFALO-DAWSON-SHERMAN-VALLEY- 523 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR... SHERMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ORD. NORTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHERN DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEISSERT TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF BROKEN BOW TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CALLAWAY...AND MOVING EAST AT 41 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... EDDYVILLE BY 550 PM CDT ARCADIA BY 555 PM CDT ELYRIA BY 600 PM CDT ORD BY 605 PM CDT MILLER BY 610 PM CDT THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 210 AND 224. QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN DAWSON...NORTHWESTERN BUFFALO...SHERMAN AND VALLEY COUNTIES...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED IF THE STORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman, Valley | 58 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.