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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2015, 3:40 AM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 8, 2015, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2015, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 Aug 8, 2:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 616 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 081200- 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- 616 PM CDT FRI AUG 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...GENERALLY MOVING IN FROM WEST TO EAST...BUT WITH SOME ACTIVITY ALSO FORMING DIRECTLY OVER THE LOCAL AREA. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY WITHIN COUNTIES WEST OF THE HIGHWAY 281 CORRIDOR...WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO LIKELY. ALTHOUGH ALMOST ANY LOCATION IS PRONE TO HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT...THE AREA MOST FAVORED TO OBSERVE HEAVY RAIN IS GENERALLY NORTH OF THE NEBRASKA-KANSAS STATE LINE AND ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 281 CORRIDOR...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. PLEASE SEE THE FLASH FLOOD PRODUCT FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RANGE BETWEEN ROUGHLY 99 AND 104 DEGREES SATURDAY AFTERNOON...MAINLY FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LOGAN KANSAS...TO HEBRON NEBRASKA. LOW CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST IN THE FORECAST FOR VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT...AND ANY REPORTS OF RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AT LEAST 2 INCHES WOULD BE APPRECIATED. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) PFANNKUCH/GUERRERO/BRYANT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 10:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin, Kearney, Phelps | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 11:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Buffalo | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 14 min |
| Aug 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney | 9 min |
| Aug 8, 12:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 1:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 1:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne, Smith | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 1:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne, Smith | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Smith | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 2:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 43 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.