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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Hastings, NE

July 24, 2015Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2015, 2:30 AM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 24, 2015, 2:30 AM CDT (07:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2015, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2384 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2015-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.8

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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 Jul 24, 2:18 AM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:18 AM CDT, 12 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 3:28 PM CDT, 11 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
328 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
241200-
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-
328 PM CDT THU JUL 23 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SEVERE STORMS
ARE POSSIBLE AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AT LEAST ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR MORE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

ON FRIDAY...A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR LOCATIONS SOUTH OF A
LINE FROM BEAVER CITY TO HASTINGS TO OSCEOLA NEBRASKA. HEAT
INDICES OF 105 TO 110 DEGREES ARE FORECAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS AT LEAST PORTIONS OF THE
OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT AND SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS
TO 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
GREELEY TO ALMA IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...INTO THE EVENING
HOURS.

&&

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 24, 1:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
105 AM CDT FRI JUL 24 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0103 AM     TSTM WND GST     LOGAN                   39.66N 99.57W
07/24/2015  M55 MPH          PHILLIPS           KS   MESONET

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson, Gosper50 min
Jul 23, 10:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas, Harlan42 min
Jul 23, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan48 min
Jul 23, 11:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas48 min
Jul 23, 11:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas43 min
Jul 23, 11:48 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDFranklin6 hr
Jul 24, 3:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHoward24 min
Jul 24, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall, Howard31 min
Jul 24, 4:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMerrick39 min
Jul 24, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick48 min
Jul 24, 5:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDYork47 min
Jul 24, 12:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips30 min
Jul 24, 1:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips43 min
Jul 24, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks50 min
Jul 24, 1:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell, Osborne43 min
Jul 24, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell49 min
Jul 24, 2:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2015Every 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.