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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 353, NWS Hastings, NE

September 17, 2014Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2014, 11:28 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
Sep 17, 2014, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 2014, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2014-09-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 106 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2014-09-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-354 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1243 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 18, 3:59 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryGIDAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more6 hr
Sep 17, 9:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks50 min
Sep 17, 11:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips, Smith51 min
Sep 17, 11:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne31 min
Sep 18, 12:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne38 min
Sep 18, 12:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell43 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.