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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Hastings, NE

June 3, 2010Valley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2010, 5:37 PM CDT for Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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 3, 2010, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2010, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Valley County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 12:00Z on 2010-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 346 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 3, 3:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
331 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2010

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
041200-
PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-
SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-
GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-
WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER-
331 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA WILL MOVE EAST AND SPREAD
ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD
BE SEVERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS TO YORK
NEBRASKA...WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH THE MAIN HAZARDS. THE PRIMARY TIME PERIOD FOR
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN 5 PM AND
MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON
SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM YORK NEBRASKA TO STOCKTON KANSAS...WITH
THE CHANCE FOR STORMS SPREADING NORTH ACROSS THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK
AREA FOR FRIDAY NIGHT. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM IS
POSSIBLE LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRIMARILY SOUTHEAST OF
A LINE FROM HEBRON NEBRASKA TO OSBORNE KANSAS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING...GENERALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM GENEVA NEBRASKA TO
OSBORNE KANSAS. ALTHOUGH NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS
ANTICIPATED...AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS AND THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE ALSO IN THE FORECAST FOR
SUNDAY...GENERALLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 281. FINALLY...INTERMITTENT
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR THE ENTIRE
OUTLOOK AREA SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED BETWEEN 5 PM AND MIDNIGHT NORTH
OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS TO YORK NEBRASKA.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Sherman, Valley30 min
Jun 3, 6:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley36 min
Jun 3, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDGreeley, Valley32 min
Jun 3, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDSherman, Valley23 min
Jun 3, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2010Every 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.