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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2015, 3:13 AM CDT for Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 19, 2015, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2015, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Jul 18, 3:53 PM CDT, 11 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 3:53 PM CDT, 11 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 4:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 4:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 3:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GID | Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks | 11 hr |
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.