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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Hastings, NE

August 9, 2014Greeley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2014, 2:28 PM CDT for Greeley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2014, 2:55 PM CDT
In force
27 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 19:29 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, 7.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 996 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2014-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 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
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

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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 Aug 9, 12:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 12:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 12:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 2:15 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
215 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014

NEZ040-092000-
GREELEY NE-
215 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN GREELEY COUNTY UNTIL 300
PM CDT...

AT 214 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTH OF GREELEY...OR 17 MILES EAST OF ORD...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPALDING.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4161 9829 4159 9875 4174 9875 4174 9830
TIME...MOT...LOC 1914Z 259DEG 22KT 4169 9860

SALTZMAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Sherman38 min
Aug 8, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo46 min
Aug 8, 10:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson44 min
Aug 8, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson52 min
Aug 8, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo41 min
Aug 8, 10:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson42 min
Aug 8, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney38 min
Aug 8, 11:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson24 min
Aug 8, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Kearney46 min
Aug 8, 11:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGosper, Phelps42 min
Aug 8, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps49 min
Aug 9, 12:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson40 min
Aug 9, 12:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson38 min
Aug 9, 12:09 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDBuffalo3 hr
Aug 9, 12:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDBuffalo4 hr
Aug 9, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin46 min
Aug 9, 12:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo46 min
Aug 9, 1:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDAdams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster46 min
Aug 9, 3:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhelps25 min
Aug 9, 3:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan, Phelps49 min
Aug 9, 4:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson29 min
Aug 9, 4:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson40 min
Aug 9, 8:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDValley20 min
Aug 9, 8:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDValley14 min
Aug 9, 8:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDValley12 min
Aug 9, 9:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDValley31 min
Aug 9, 10:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDNance25 min
Aug 9, 10:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDValley20 min
Aug 9, 10:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley14 min
Aug 9, 11:01 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley14 min
Aug 9, 11:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDValley16 min
Aug 9, 12:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley45 min
Aug 9, 12:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley36 min
Aug 9, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley40 min
Aug 9, 1:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley32 min
Aug 9, 2:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley45 min
Aug 9, 2:49 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDGreeley3 hr
Aug 9, 6:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin49 min
Aug 9, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Webster29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.