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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Hastings, NE

June 26, 2014Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2014, 1:59 AM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 26, 2014, 1:59 AM CDT (06:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2014, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2014-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2000 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2014-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2000 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 11:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas37 min
Jun 25, 11:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas46 min
Jun 26, 2:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPolk, York38 min
Jun 26, 12:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips, Rooks38 min
Jun 26, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks49 min
Jun 26, 1:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne, Smith49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.