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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

March 28, 2012Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2012, 3:41 PM CDT for Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2012, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2012, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

661 
WUUS53 KGID 282041
SVRGID
NEC065-073-282115-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0013.120328T2041Z-120328T2115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
341 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
  SOUTHWESTERN GOSPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 338 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF HOLBROOK...OR 31 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF LEXINGTON.  THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN GOSPER COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 10010 4044 10005 4044 9999 4048 9999
      4049 9998 4038 9982 4030 9996 4040 10010
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 240DEG 2KT 4037 9997
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

JCB

1 follow-up statement

998 
WWUS53 KGID 282105
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
405 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012

NEC065-073-282115-
/O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120328T2115Z/
FURNAS NE-GOSPER NE-
405 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN
GOSPER AND NORTH CENTRAL FURNAS COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM CDT...

AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOLBROOK...OR 30 MILES SOUTH
OF LEXINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN GOSPER COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 10010 4044 10005 4044 9999 4048 9999
      4049 9998 4038 9982 4030 9996 4040 10010
TIME...MOT...LOC 2105Z 240DEG 2KT 4038 9995
WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN

$$

JCB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	41 min
Mar 28, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	25 min
Mar 28, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	30 min
Mar 28, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	31 min
Mar 28, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	29 min
Mar 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	31 min
Mar 28, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	31 min
Mar 28, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas, Gosper	63 min
Mar 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	45 min
Mar 28, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper	29 min
Mar 28, 4:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	6 hr
Mar 28, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	30 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.