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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Hastings, NE

July 23, 2014Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2014, 4:01 AM CDT for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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: Jul 23, 2014, 4:01 AM CDT (09:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2014, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Phillips County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 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 Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT, 9 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT, 9 hours 11 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
Jul 23, 2:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	31 min
Jul 23, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	33 min
Jul 23, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	44 min
Jul 23, 3:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	40 min
Jul 23, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	43 min
Jul 23, 3:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	36 min
Jul 23, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	32 min
Jul 23, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	28 min
Jul 23, 4:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan	45 min
Jul 23, 4:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan	4 hr
Jul 23, 5:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	29 min
Jul 23, 6:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	26 min
Jul 23, 6:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	31 min
Jul 23, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper	50 min
Jul 23, 9:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper	39 min
Jul 23, 10:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	33 min
Jul 23, 10:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	50 min
Jul 23, 10:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	47 min
Jul 23, 5:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	32 min
Jul 23, 11:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	45 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.