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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2015, 9:58 PM CDT for Mitchell 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
- Jun 25, 2015, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2015, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 3.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:29 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 929 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 KSZ007-260300- JEWELL KS- 929 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN JEWELL COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 928 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR IONIA...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELOIT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MANKATO...JEWELL AND IONIA. LAT...LON 3962 9847 3976 9849 3987 9821 3964 9812 TIME...MOT...LOC 0228Z 255DEG 20KT 3971 9840 BRYANT
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:47 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 947 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 KSZ019-260315- MITCHELL KS- 947 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM CDT... AT 946 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ASHERVILLE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELOIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELOIT...ASHERVILLE AND SIMPSON. LAT...LON 3938 9830 3951 9793 3922 9793 3922 9827 TIME...MOT...LOC 0246Z 239DEG 32KT 3940 9797 BRYANT
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:52 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 952 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 KSZ018-260315- OSBORNE KS- 952 PM CDT THU JUN 25 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM CDT... AT 951 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LURAY...OR 24 MILES NORTH OF RUSSELL...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY. LAT...LON 3930 9903 3942 9852 3913 9849 3913 9901 TIME...MOT...LOC 0251Z 270DEG 24KT 3924 9881 BRYANT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 10:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.