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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 375, NWS Hastings, NE

October 2, 2014Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 2014, 6:17 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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: Oct 2, 2014, 6:17 AM CDT (11:17 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 1756 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 5.8

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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 Oct 2, 5:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 5:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 2, 5:26 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 2, 3:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 3:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 3:29 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 5:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:43 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 6:08 AM CDT, 9 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
Oct 1, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	38 min
Oct 1, 7:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	32 min
Oct 1, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	31 min
Oct 1, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	33 min
Oct 1, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	30 min
Oct 1, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	35 min
Oct 1, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams	50 min
Oct 1, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	33 min
Oct 1, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	30 min
Oct 1, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	38 min
Oct 1, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall, Howard	50 min
Oct 1, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton	27 min
Oct 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard	24 min
Oct 1, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	41 min
Oct 1, 9:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Adams, Clay	109 min
Oct 1, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	45 min
Oct 1, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Hamilton	30 min
Oct 1, 9:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	39 min
Oct 1, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	33 min
Oct 1, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	26 min
Oct 1, 10:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	47 min
Oct 1, 10:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	47 min
Oct 1, 10:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	47 min
Oct 1, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	49 min
Oct 1, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	46 min
Oct 1, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	41 min
Oct 1, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	51 min
Oct 1, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	45 min
Oct 1, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	34 min
Oct 1, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	63 min
Oct 2, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	45 min
Oct 2, 1:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Franklin, Hall, Howard, Kearney and 1 more	42 min
Oct 2, 1:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	45 min
Oct 2, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	43 min
Oct 2, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	47 min
Oct 2, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton, Polk	45 min
Oct 2, 3:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	40 min
Oct 2, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	46 min
Oct 2, 3:42 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Greeley, Howard, Sherman and 1 more	12 hr
Oct 2, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	47 min
Oct 2, 6:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	52 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.