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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Hastings, NE

June 1, 2010Franklin County, Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2010, 6:20 AM CDT for Franklin County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 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 1, 2010, 6:20 AM CDT (11:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 1525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1418 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 1, 4:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 4:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 6:06 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 5:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:39 AM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:43 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:56 AM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 6:04 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 6:14 AM CDT, 6 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 1, 5:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	29 min
Jun 1, 5:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	28 min
Jun 1, 5:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	39 min
Jun 1, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	48 min
Jun 1, 6:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	45 min
Jun 1, 7:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	37 min
Jun 1, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	44 min
Jun 1, 8:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	23 min
Jun 1, 8:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	49 min
Jun 1, 8:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	24 min
Jun 1, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	19 min
Jun 1, 11:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	51 min
Jun 1, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	27 min
Jun 1, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nance	33 min
Jun 1, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	43 min
Jun 1, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	18 min
Jun 1, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	28 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Merrick	51 min
Jun 1, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	25 min
Jun 1, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	43 min
Jun 1, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	32 min
Jun 1, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	29 min
Jun 1, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	49 min
Jun 1, 6:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	York	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.