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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Hastings, NE

June 14, 2013Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2013, 3:06 AM CDT for Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 14, 2013, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2013, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 1:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 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 14, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	24 min
Jun 14, 3:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	45 min
Jun 14, 5:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Phelps	3 hr
Jun 14, 6:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay	32 min
Jun 14, 7:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	25 min
Jun 14, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	27 min
Jun 14, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	12 min
Jun 14, 8:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	15 min
Jun 14, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Phelps	43 min
Jun 14, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	16 min
Jun 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	48 min
Jun 14, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	23 min
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas	4 hr
Jun 14, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	34 min
Jun 14, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	38 min
Jun 14, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	48 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	30 min
Jun 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	50 min
Jun 14, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	32 min
Jun 14, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	40 min
Jun 14, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	32 min
Jun 14, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Merrick	47 min
Jun 14, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney	24 min
Jun 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Merrick	46 min
Jun 14, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	26 min
Jun 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	34 min
Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	48 min
Jun 14, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nance	52 min
Jun 14, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Phelps	50 min
Jun 14, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk	46 min
Jun 14, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	30 min
Jun 14, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Hamilton, Nuckolls, York	51 min
Jun 14, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	38 min
Jun 14, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman	37 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	17 min
Jun 14, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	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.