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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2009, 2:01 PM CDT for 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 23, 2009, 2:01 PM CDT (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2009, 2:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Merrick County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 12:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 539 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 Mar 23, 12:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 12:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1108 AM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 KSZ005-017-NEZ039>041-046>049-060-072-073-082-083-241200- PHILLIPS-ROOKS-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK- DAWSON-GOSPER-PHELPS-FURNAS-HARLAN- 1108 AM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...GENERALLY NORTH OF I-80 AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 183. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR WIND SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN NOON AND 7 PM...PRIMARILY EAST OF A LINE FROM LEXINGTON TO PHILLIPSBURG. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE...GENERALLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ON TUESDAY...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MPH AND GUST TO 40 MPH. ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) KSZ006-007-018-019-NEZ061>064-074>077-084>087-241200- SMITH-JEWELL-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-KEARNEY- ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 1108 AM CDT MON MAR 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-80 AND ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 183. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR WIND SPEEDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH AND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN NOON AND 7 PM...PRIMARILY EAST OF A LINE FROM LEXINGTON TO PHILLIPSBURG. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE...GENERALLY EAST OF HIGHWAY 281. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 10:48 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Hall and 6 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 23, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Polk | 25 min |
| Mar 23, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 26 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.