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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Hastings, NE

May 27, 2013Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2013, 7:50 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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: May 27, 2013, 7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2013, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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
May 27, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 7:02 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 7:38 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
738 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0732 PM     HAIL             4 WNW BELOIT            39.49N 98.18W
05/27/2013  E1.00 INCH       MITCHELL           KS   PUBLIC

&&

SROSSI

Local storm report, May 27, 7:41 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
741 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0710 PM     TORNADO          3 NNE LEBANON           39.85N 98.54W
05/27/2013                   SMITH              KS   STORM CHASER

            DELAYED REPORT OF LARGE TORNADO AT LEAST ONE-HALF MILE
            WIDE...FROM SOCIAL MEDIA POST. TIME AIDED BY RADAR
            ESTIMATION. NO KNOWN DAMAGE AT THIS TIME.

&&

PFANNKUCH

Local storm report, May 27, 7:42 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
742 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0740 PM     HAIL             BURR OAK                39.87N 98.30W
05/27/2013  E0.50 INCH       JEWELL             KS   CO-OP OBSERVER

            HALF INCH HAIL MIXED WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.

&&

SROSSI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	38 min
May 27, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	48 min
May 27, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls	25 min
May 27, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	49 min
May 27, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	31 min
May 27, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	48 min
May 27, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	30 min
May 27, 8:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Fillmore	3 hr
May 27, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	51 min
May 27, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	34 min
May 27, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	40 min
May 27, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	31 min
May 27, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	49 min
May 27, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	35 min
May 27, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	29 min
May 27, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	34 min
May 27, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	45 min
May 27, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	33 min
May 27, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	49 min
May 27, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	36 min
May 28, 3:17 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Smith	30 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.