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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2008, 5:58 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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 22, 2008, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2008, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 651 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 22, 2:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 2:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 220 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 KSZ005-017-NEZ082-083-231200- PHILLIPS-ROOKS-FURNAS-HARLAN- 220 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PHILLIPS...ROOKS...FURNAS... AND HARLAN COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH AT 45 TO 50 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND 70 MPH WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE LIKELY BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD BE READY FOR ACTIVATION ON A MOMENTS NOTICE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) KSZ006-007-018-019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-084>087- 231200- SMITH-JEWELL-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD- MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS- KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 220 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND FOR OSBORNE...SMITH...JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH AT 45 TO 50 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND 70 MPH WINDS. TORNADOES ALSO REMAIN POSSIBLE PRIMARILY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 4 IN NEBRASKA. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE LIKELY BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && 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 22, 5:51 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 551 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 NEZ082-222315- FURNAS- 551 PM CDT THU MAY 22 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR... WESTERN FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR REAGER...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTON... AND MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILSONVILLE BY 610 PM CDT CAMBRIDGE BY 615 PM CDT PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 37 min |
| May 22, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 32 min |
Nearby
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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.