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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Hastings, NE

June 24, 2008Dawson County, Gosper County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2008, 12:02 AM CDT for Dawson County, Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 24, 2008, 12:02 AM CDT (05:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2008, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Dawson County, NE, Gosper County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1349 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 9.9

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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 Jun 23, 6:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 6:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 8:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
813 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
241200-
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-
813 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE
MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE STORMS WILL BE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS
AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1
TO 3 INCHES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE...WHICH MAY LEAD TO AREAS OF FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE INTERMITTENTLY THROUGH THE WEEK AND
INTO THE WEEKEND.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT.

&&

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 11:55 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1155 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008

NEZ075-240530-
ADAMS-
1155 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR...

  SOUTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

AT 1152 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
NEAR BLADEN...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HASTINGS...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 13 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AYR BY 1230 AM CDT

SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE, OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Webster	64 min
Jun 24, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	48 min
Jun 24, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Hall, Howard, Sherman	64 min
Jun 24, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper	59 min
Jun 24, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	29 min
Jun 24, 1:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Dawson	6 hr
Jun 24, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Hamilton	47 min
Jun 24, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	62 min
Jun 24, 2:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Buffalo	6 hr
Jun 24, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Kearney, Phelps	62 min
Jun 24, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton	52 min
Jun 24, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	52 min
Jun 24, 2:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	6 hr
Jun 24, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	51 min
Jun 24, 3:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	41 min
Jun 24, 4:17 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Clay, Fillmore, York	4 hr
Jun 24, 7:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Buffalo	4 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.