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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Hastings, NE

June 14, 2009Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2009, 11:44 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 14, 2009, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2009, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
46 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 04:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2009-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1126 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2009-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 14, 11:39 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 11:39 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 10:59 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 10:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas31 min
Jun 14, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas41 min
Jun 15, 12:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas46 min
Jun 15, 12:32 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDFurnas6 hr
Jun 15, 1:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHarlan35 min
Jun 15, 2:09 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDBuffalo68 hr
Jun 15, 3:31 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDBuffalo4 days
Jun 15, 11:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchGIDFurnas, Harlan12 hr
Jun 15, 2:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks31 min
Jun 15, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks52 min
Jun 15, 2:54 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks42 hr
Jun 15, 3:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSmith37 min
Jun 15, 3:13 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningGIDRooks62 hr
Jun 15, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne41 min
Jun 15, 4:29 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningGIDOsborne, Smith24 hr
Jun 15, 6:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell40 min
Jun 15, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.