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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Hastings, NE

June 19, 2010Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2010, 7:26 AM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 19, 2010, 7:26 AM CDT (12:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2010, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jewell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 4199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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 19, 6:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 5:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 7:08 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 7:13 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:16 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 7:20 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 7:23 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 7:26 AM CDT, 0 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 19, 5:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	43 min
Jun 19, 5:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	40 min
Jun 19, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	33 min
Jun 19, 6:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	48 min
Jun 19, 6:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	40 min
Jun 19, 7:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	44 min
Jun 19, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	46 min
Jun 19, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	33 min
Jun 19, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	50 min
Jun 19, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	32 min
Jun 19, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	18 min
Jun 19, 8:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	38 min
Jun 19, 8:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	34 min
Jun 19, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	50 min
Jun 19, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	45 min
Jun 19, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	42 min
Jun 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	46 min
Jun 19, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	42 min
Jun 19, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	38 min
Jun 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks, Smith	52 min
Jun 19, 5:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Jewell	6 hr
Jun 19, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Osborne, Smith	24 min
Jun 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	34 min
Jun 19, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	46 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks, Smith	38 min
Jun 19, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	28 min
Jun 19, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	38 min
Jun 19, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	27 min
Jun 19, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	27 min
Jun 19, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.