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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Hastings, NE

June 1, 20144 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2014, 3:39 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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: Jun 1, 2014, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2014, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 1168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 2:49 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 2:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 2:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:55 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:02 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:19 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 3:28 PM CDT, 11 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
Jun 1, 12:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	17 min
Jun 1, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	9 min
Jun 1, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper	21 min
Jun 1, 1:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	27 min
Jun 1, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	26 min
Jun 1, 1:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps	37 min
Jun 1, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	49 min
Jun 1, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper	43 min
Jun 1, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	31 min
Jun 1, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	28 min
Jun 1, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	26 min
Jun 1, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	38 min
Jun 1, 4:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Buffalo	3 hr
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	45 min
Jun 1, 4:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Harlan	3 hr
Jun 1, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	52 min
Jun 1, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	48 min
Jun 1, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	10 min
Jun 1, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	38 min
Jun 1, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	32 min
Jun 1, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	35 min
Jun 1, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	35 min
Jun 1, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	32 min
Jun 1, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	34 min
Jun 1, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	31 min
Jun 1, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	20 min
Jun 1, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	39 min
Jun 1, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	23 min
Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	30 min
Jun 1, 6:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	18 hr
Jun 1, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2014 Every 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.