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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Hastings, NE

July 1, 2008Buffalo County, Sherman County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2008, 10:53 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2008, 10:53 PM CDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2008, 11:19 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Sherman County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 1, 10:53 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Litchfield, NE	DAMAGE TO A SILO TYPE STRUCTURE IN TOWN. SEVERAL TREE LIMBS FALLEN WHICH ARE AT LEAST 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 1975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 020353
SVRGID
NEC019-163-020430-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0310.080702T0353Z-080702T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1053 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SHERMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  NORTH CENTRAL BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1049 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
  13 MILES NORTH OF LITCHFIELD TO LITCHFIELD TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HAZARD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORD
  TO 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORD TO 24 MILES NORTH OF KEARNEY...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 27 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  PLEASANTON AND HAZARD BY 1105 PM CDT
  LOUP CITY BY 1115 PM CDT
  POOLE AND LOUP CITY BY 1120 PM CDT
  RAVENNA BY 1125 PM CDT
  ROCKVILLE...ASHTON AND SHERMAN RESERVOIR DAM BY 1130 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4130 9881 4115 9876 4095 9881 4099 9930
      4105 9930 4105 9921 4133 9920
TIME...MOT...LOC 0353Z 276DEG 24KT 4133 9919 4118 9916
          4104 9919

$$

AWJ

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KGID 020402
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1102 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

NEC019-163-020430-
/O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080702T0430Z/
SHERMAN NE-BUFFALO NE-
1102 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL BUFFALO AND SHERMAN COUNTIES...

AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF LOUP CITY TO LITCHFIELD
TO HAZARD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORD
TO 31 MILES SOUTH OF ORD TO 23 MILES NORTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING EAST
AT 28 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LOUP CITY BY 1115 PM CDT
  POOLE BY 1120 PM CDT
  SHERMAN RESERVOIR DAM AND RAVENNA BY 1125 PM CDT
  ROCKVILLE AND ASHTON BY 1130 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4130 9881 4115 9876 4095 9881 4099 9930
      4105 9930 4105 9921 4133 9920
TIME...MOT...LOC 0402Z 276DEG 24KT 4132 9911 4117 9908
          4103 9911

$$

AWJ

000 
WWUS53 KGID 020413
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1113 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

NEC019-163-020430-
/O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080702T0430Z/
SHERMAN NE-BUFFALO NE-
1113 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL BUFFALO AND SHERMAN COUNTIES...

AT 1110 PM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS REPORTED CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LOUP CITY TO 6 MILES
NORTHEAST OF HAZARD TO HAZARD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21
MILES SOUTH OF ORD TO 31 MILES SOUTH OF ORD TO 22 MILES NORTH OF
KEARNEY...MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  POOLE BY 1120 PM CDT
  RAVENNA BY 1125 PM CDT
  ROCKVILLE...ASHTON AND SHERMAN RESERVOIR DAM BY 1130 PM CDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4130 9881 4115 9876 4095 9881 4098 9918
      4104 9917 4106 9915 4132 9915
TIME...MOT...LOC 0413Z 276DEG 24KT 4131 9901 4116 9898
          4102 9901

$$

AWJ

000 
WWUS53 KGID 020419
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1119 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

NEC019-163-020429-
/O.CAN.KGID.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080702T0430Z/
SHERMAN NE-BUFFALO NE-
1119 PM CDT TUE JUL 1 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL BUFFALO AND
SHERMAN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES 
THROUGH THE AREA.

LAT...LON 4130 9881 4115 9876 4095 9881 4098 9918
      4104 9917 4106 9915 4132 9915
TIME...MOT...LOC 0419Z 276DEG 24KT 4131 9896 4116 9893
          4102 9896

$$

AWJ

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.