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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

June 8, 2010Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2010, 1:50 AM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 8, 2010, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2010, 5:14 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Phelps County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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, 6.8 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-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: 1563 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 7, 3:09 PM CDT, 10 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:09 PM CDT, 10 hours 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	43 min
Jun 8, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman, Valley	42 min
Jun 8, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper, Phelps	47 min
Jun 8, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Greeley, Hall, Howard, Kearney and 2 more	48 min
Jun 8, 12:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Dawson	4 hr
Jun 8, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	51 min
Jun 8, 1:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick and 3 more	39 min
Jun 8, 1:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	67 min
Jun 8, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	45 min
Jun 8, 2:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	39 min
Jun 8, 2:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Valley	4 hr
Jun 8, 2:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	58 min
Jun 8, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Hall, Kearney, Merrick, Nance	48 min
Jun 8, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 12 more	89 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.