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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2014, 6:28 PM CDT for Polk County, Nebraska. It was in force for 17 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 3, 2014, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2014, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 2.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Polk County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 3, 1:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 3, 5:47 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 5:47 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 547 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY) ISSUED AT 133 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 ALOFT: THE SHORTWAVE TROF RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SEVERE TSTM THREAT WILL DEPART FOR THE GREAT LAKES TONIGHT...FOLLOWED BY A SHORTWAVE RIDGE TOMORROW. MEANWHILE...THE NEXT TROF IS ALREADY MOVING ONTO THE W COAST AND WILL CROSS THE NRN ROCKIES BY TOMORROW EVENING. SURFACE: LEE CYCLOGENESIS WAS IN PROGRESS. THIS LOW WILL HEAD E ALONG THE KS-NEB BORDER TONIGHT AND HEAD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TOMORROW. IN ITS TAKE...THE FRONT THAT CURRENTLY BISECTS NEB WILL SAG S INTO THE SRN PLAINS AND BECOME STATIONARY. WEAK HIGH PRES BUILDS IN TOMORROW. REST OF THIS AFTERNOON: WE EXPECT SEVERAL CLASSIC SUPERCELLS TO FORM OVER S-CNTRL NEB. GIVEN THE MODERATE-HIGH INSTABILITY... MLCAPE UP TO 3500 J/KG AND 0-1 KM SHEAR...AND SUFFICIENT TO SIGNIFICANT 0-1 KM AND 0-3 KM SRH...HIGH-END SEVERE WX IS EXPECTED WITH THESE SUPERCELLS. REMEMBER...THESE STORMS WILL NOT FORM EVERYWHERE. JUST BE AWARE THAT IF A THUNDERSTORM FORMS IN YOUR VICINITY...HAVE A PLAN FOR WHERE YOU WILL TAKE SHELTER AND BE READY FOR THREATENING WX. CONT TO FOLLOW ALL WATCHES/WARNINGS FROM THIS OFFICE REGARDING SEVERE WX. TONIGHT: WE WILL NEED TO MONITOR N-CNTRL KS FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT ALONG OR AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE. OTHERWISE...TSTMS WILL EXIT THE FCST AREA BY 10 PM. WED: QUIET AND DRY. TEMPS BACK TO NEAR NORMAL. WE MAY NOT BE HIGH ENOUGH WITH THE WINDS DURING THE MORNING. INITIAL MIXING MAY BRING DOWN HIGHER WINDS FORENOON. .LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 133 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 DUE TO THE MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE WX THIS AFTERNOON...WE WILL FOREGO THE EXTENDED DISC. OVERALL TREND WILL BE FOR COOLER TEMPS...POSSIBLY WITH ONE DAY OF MUCH BELOW NORMAL HIGHS /10F OR MORE/. SUNDAY HIGHS COULD STRUGGLE TO REACH 70F. MULTIPLE LOW CHANCES FOR SHWRS/TSTMS BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE "BEST" CHANCE WILL BE FRI NIGHT WITH THE STRONGEST COLD FRONT WE HAVE SEEN SINCE MID MAY. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z WEDNESDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 543 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 WHETHER OR NOT TSTMS WILL REACH KGRI IS THE MAIN CONCERN FOR THE TAF PERIOD THIS EVENING. CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED NORTH OF THE TERMINAL WITH NEW DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS INITIATING WELL TO THE WEST. THERE REMAINS AN OUTSIDE CHC THAT STORMS MAY REACH KGRI...BUT HAVE JUST CARRIED VCTS ATTM. IF STORMS DO REACH THE TERMINAL...SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE SFC COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL CROSS KGRI AFTER 06Z WITH WINDS SHIFTING NORTHERLY. CONDITIONS ALSO DRY OUT TONIGHT BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR MVFR CIGS TOWARD WEDNESDAY MORNING. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR KSZ005>007-017>019. && SHORT TERM...HALBLAUB LONG TERM...HALBLAUB AVIATION...FAY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 418 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 041200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE- SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK- GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 418 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LONG TRACK TORNADOES...HAIL OF BASEBALL SIZE AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL 9 PM MAINLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES COULD ACCOMPANY THE STORMS WHICH MAY CAUSE AREAS OF LOWLAND FLOODING...ESPECIALLY FOR LOCATIONS WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WEEKEND. ALSO...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. INTERMITTENT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN ON MONDAY. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ON FRIDAY...AND ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
504 PM CDT TUE JUN 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0459 PM TORNADO 5 W GREELEY 41.55N 98.63W
06/03/2014 GREELEY NE LAW ENFORCEMENT
TORNADO REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BETWEEN GREELEY AND
SCOTIA. EST LOCATION 5W OF GREELEY
&&
PBEDALocal storm report, Jun 3, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
505 PM CDT TUE JUN 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0430 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 N ELYRIA 41.71N 99.01W
06/03/2014 VALLEY NE COUNTY OFFICIAL
PIVOTS OVERTURNED N OF ELYRIA
&&
PBEDALocal storm report, Jun 3, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
508 PM CDT TUE JUN 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0505 PM TORNADO 8 W SPALDING 41.69N 98.52W
06/03/2014 GREELEY NE COUNTY OFFICIAL
BRIEF TORNADO REPORTED 8W OF SPALDING BY TRAINED SPOTTER.
&&
PBEDASpecial weather statement, Jun 3, 5:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
509 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014
NEZ040-041-046>048-032230-
GREELEY NE-NANCE NE-MERRICK NE-SHERMAN NE-HOWARD NE-
509 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN HOWARD...SOUTHERN
GREELEY...WESTERN NANCE...NORTHWESTERN MERRICK AND NORTHEASTERN
SHERMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM CDT...
AT 508 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A GUST FRONT ASSOCIATED
WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN GREELEY COUNTY. THIS GUST
FRONT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
WHILE THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE AREA...WIND GUSTS
OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THIS GUST FRONT PASSES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FULLERTON...SCOTIA...WOLBACH...ELBA...BELGRADE...COTESFIELD AND
CUSHING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4146 9833 4148 9819 4148 9810 4150 9809
4150 9805 4151 9800 4129 9791 4126 9875
4153 9875
TIME...MOT...LOC 2208Z 310DEG 38KT 4152 9850 4146 9866
HALBLAUBLocal storm report, Jun 3, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
527 PM CDT TUE JUN 03 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0516 PM HAIL SPALDING 41.69N 98.36W
06/03/2014 M1.75 INCH GREELEY NE COUNTY OFFICIAL
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL FALLING IN
TOWN.
0516 PM TORNADO WOLBACH 41.40N 98.39W
06/03/2014 GREELEY NE LAW ENFORCEMENT
TORNADO REPORTED CROSSING HWY 281 BETWEEN MILE MARKER 102
AND 103
&&
PBEDALocal storm report, Jun 3, 6:10 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley, Valley | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 7:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Howard, Sherman | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 22 min |
| Jun 3, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 38 min |
| Jun 3, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nance | 21 min |
| Jun 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nance | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance, Polk | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Sherman, Valley | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman, Valley | 67 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.