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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2014, 12:50 PM CDT for Greeley County, Nebraska. 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
- Aug 9, 2014, 12:50 PM CDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Greeley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
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 Aug 9, 12:32 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 12:32 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 10:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 11:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 12:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 12:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 12:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Buffalo | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Buffalo | 4 hr |
| Aug 9, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 12:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Buffalo | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 1:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 3:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phelps | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 4:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 40 min |
| Aug 9, 8:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 20 min |
| Aug 9, 8:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 14 min |
| Aug 9, 8:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 12 min |
| Aug 9, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 10:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nance | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 10:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 20 min |
| Aug 9, 10:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 14 min |
| Aug 9, 11:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 14 min |
| Aug 9, 11:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 16 min |
| Aug 9, 12:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 1:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 2:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 2:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Greeley | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 29 min |
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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.