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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
- 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, 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 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 40 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, 2:49 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.