Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 369, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 2008, 8:54 PM CDT for Greeley County, Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 28, 2008, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2008, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greeley County, NE, Valley County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 28, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 28, 5:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 508 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 2008 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 291345- 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- 508 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER A GOOD PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. HOWEVER... MOST OF THE STORM ACTIVITY WILL BE BELOW SEVERE LEVELS...BUT STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND MOVE SOUTHEAST DURING THE MID TO LATE EVENING HOURS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ADDITIONAL STORM DEVELOP IS LIKELY NEAR THE MIDNIGHT HOUR AS THE MAIN FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPROACHES IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. MOST OF THE STORM ACTIVITY WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST OF THE REGION BY DAWN MONDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .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, Sep 28, 8:27 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 827 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 2008 NEZ039-290200- VALLEY- 827 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR... VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ORD. AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ELYRIA...OR NEAR ORD...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ORD BY 835 PM CDT NORTH LOUP BY 850 PM CDT PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. WESELY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 27 min |
| Sep 29, 12:05 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps and 2 more | 20 hr |
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.