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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2015, 9:36 PM CDT for Jewell County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 22, 2015, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2015, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jewell County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 10:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 11:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 27 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.