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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Hastings, NE

June 14, 2012Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2012, 7:27 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 14, 2012, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2012, 8:02 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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 14, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 2789 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.8

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The text

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

002 
WUUS53 KGID 150027
SVRGID
KSC141-163-150115-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0252.120615T0027Z-120615T0115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
727 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF STOCKTON TO 5
  MILES EAST OF DAMAR...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ZURICH...STOCKTON...PLAINVILLE...WOODSTON...CODELL...ALTON AND
  NATOMA.

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 3915 9961 3957 9960 3957 9874 3914 9892
TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 270DEG 24KT 3953 9927 3931 9945
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN

$$

GUERRERO

1 follow-up statement

544 
WWUS53 KGID 150102
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
802 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012

KSC141-163-150111-
/O.CAN.KGID.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-120615T0115Z/
ROOKS KS-OSBORNE KS-
802 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN OSBORNE AND ROOKS
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE LINE OF STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW
SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR
PROPERTY.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT. 

LAT...LON 3915 9961 3957 9960 3957 9874 3914 9892
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 270DEG 24KT 3953 9898 3931 9916

$$

GUERRERO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	50 min
Jun 14, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	30 min
Jun 14, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	51 min
Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	15 min
Jun 14, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	47 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.