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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Hastings, NE

June 16, 2013Jewell County, Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2013, 9:30 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 16, 2013, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2013, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 16, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.0

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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 16, 7:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 7:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 2:49 PM CDT, 6 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
249 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
171200-
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-
249 PM CDT SUN JUN 16 2013

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE
STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...THUNDERSTORM
WIND GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE
PRIMARY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY
NIGHT...AND AGAIN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE THE
POTENTIAL FOR SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO BE SEVERE...WITH QUARTER SIZE
HAIL AND THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH BEING THE
PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS.

PERIODIC CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXIST IN THE FORECAST FOR
VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THURSDAY THROUGH THROUGH
SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA.

&&

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

ADO/BRYANT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:38 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:40 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:43 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:47 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 9:03 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 9:26 PM CDT, 4 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 16, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Kearney	39 min
Jun 16, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Kearney, Phelps	27 min
Jun 16, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Webster	42 min
Jun 16, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney	33 min
Jun 16, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	31 min
Jun 16, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Kearney	42 min
Jun 16, 7:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Kearney, Phelps	6 hr
Jun 16, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	18 min
Jun 16, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	42 min
Jun 16, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Webster	29 min
Jun 16, 11:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	12 hr
Jun 16, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	27 min
Jun 16, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	50 min
Jun 16, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	27 min
Jun 16, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	46 min
Jun 16, 10:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	13 hr

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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.