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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Hastings, NE

June 4, 2015Clay County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2015, 3:56 AM CDT for Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 4, 2015, 3:56 AM CDT (08:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2015, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Clay County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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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 Jun 4, 1:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 1:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 4:02 PM CDT, 11 hours 54 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
402 PM CDT WED JUN 3 2015

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
042115-
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-
402 PM CDT WED JUN 3 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING
AND OVERNIGHT. THE GREATEST SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE SOUTH OF
HIGHWAY 92 IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND EXTEND INTO NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS. THE MAIN HAZARDS SHOULD BE LARGE HAIL UP TO AROUND GOLF
BALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 70 MPH...ALONG WITH
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH. ALTHOUGH NOT EXPECTED TO
BE A WIDESPREAD RISK...A TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT
EITHER...ESPECIALLY EARLY THIS EVENING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA.

FLOOD WARNINGS OR ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT ALONG PORTIONS OF
THE PLATTE RIVER BETWEEN GOTHENBURG AND THE CENTRAL CITY AREA.
PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SOME SEVERE
STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST LIKELY TIME FRAME BEING THURSDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAIL NEAR THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...ALONG WITH
HEAVY RAIN.

IN ADDITION...FLOOD WARNINGS OR ADVISORIES WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT
ALONG PORTIONS OF THE PLATTE RIVER BETWEEN GOTHENBURG AND THE
CENTRAL CITY AREA FOR SEVERAL MORE DAYS. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST
FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ACROSS PARTS OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT...AND ANY REPORTS OF LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WOULD
BE APPRECIATED.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

WESELY/JCB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 1:56 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:34 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:47 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
Jun 3, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	41 min
Jun 3, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	43 min
Jun 3, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	45 min
Jun 3, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	40 min
Jun 3, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	45 min
Jun 3, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	52 min
Jun 3, 11:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	39 min
Jun 3, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	51 min
Jun 4, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	26 min
Jun 4, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, York	24 min
Jun 4, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	44 min
Jun 4, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	48 min
Jun 4, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	41 min
Jun 4, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Kearney	30 min
Jun 4, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	18 min
Jun 4, 1:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	44 min
Jun 4, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	49 min
Jun 4, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Howard	46 min
Jun 4, 2:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	39 min
Jun 4, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton	41 min
Jun 4, 3:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton	3 hr
Jun 4, 4:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	40 min
Jun 4, 5:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	41 min
Jun 4, 5:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	38 min
Jun 4, 5:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	44 min
Jun 4, 5:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	41 min
Jun 4, 6:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	43 min
Jun 4, 6:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Thayer	9 hr
Jun 4, 7:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, York	39 min
Jun 4, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	45 min
Jun 4, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	19 min
Jun 4, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	25 min
Jun 4, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	30 min
Jun 4, 3:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Thayer, York	24 hr
Jun 4, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	46 min
Jun 3, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	20 min
Jun 3, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	45 min
Jun 3, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	34 min
Jun 3, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	34 min
Jun 3, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	30 min
Jun 3, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	37 min
Jun 3, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	28 min
Jun 3, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	30 min
Jun 3, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	40 min
Jun 3, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	34 min
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	45 min
Jun 3, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	39 min
Jun 3, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	48 min
Jun 3, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	52 min
Jun 3, 9:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	6 hr
Jun 3, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	44 min
Jun 3, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	41 min
Jun 3, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	30 min
Jun 3, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	24 min
Jun 3, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell	34 min
Jun 3, 11:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	39 min
Jun 3, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	50 min
Jun 3, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	45 min
Jun 3, 11:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	4 hr
Jun 3, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	53 min
Jun 3, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	36 min
Jun 4, 12:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	39 min
Jun 4, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	38 min
Jun 4, 1:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	47 min
Jun 4, 3:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	9 hr
Jun 4, 6:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.