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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Hastings, NE

September 10, 2015Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2015, 12:35 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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: Sep 10, 2015, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2015, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 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

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -267 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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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 Sep 10, 6:22 AM CDT, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 6:22 AM CDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 8:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
827 AM CDT THU SEP 10 2015

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
111330-
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-
827 AM CDT THU SEP 10 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
...MAINLY FROM INTERSTATE 80 SOUTHWARD...INCLUDING NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...WITH HAIL AT LEAST
THE SIZE ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH.
HOWEVER...THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE FROM NEBRASKA
HIGHWAY 136 DOWN INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WHERE HAIL TO NEAR 2
INCHES IN DIAMETER WILL BE POSSIBLE. A TORNADO ALSO CANNOT BE
RULED OUT.

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

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80...INCLUDING NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS.

&&

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

HALBLAUB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 10, 10:31 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 10, 10:35 AM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Sep 10, 10:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 10, 11:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 10, 12:08 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 10, 12:24 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 9, 7:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Howard, Sherman, Valley	6 hr
Sep 9, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	36 min
Sep 9, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nance	26 min
Sep 9, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard, Merrick	33 min
Sep 9, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick	37 min
Sep 9, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	33 min
Sep 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	30 min
Sep 9, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Hamilton	32 min
Sep 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	33 min
Sep 9, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	31 min
Sep 9, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York	50 min
Sep 9, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	35 min
Sep 9, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	32 min
Sep 9, 9:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	31 min
Sep 9, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Merrick	34 min
Sep 9, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard, Merrick	37 min
Sep 9, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Merrick	35 min
Sep 9, 10:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Greeley, Howard, Sherman, Valley	12 hr
Sep 9, 11:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Hamilton, Merrick, York	7 hr
Sep 9, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York	30 min
Sep 9, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Merrick	29 min
Sep 9, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	48 min
Sep 10, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	47 min
Sep 10, 1:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	51 min
Sep 10, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	20 min
Sep 10, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	26 min
Sep 10, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	18 min
Sep 10, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	15 min
Sep 10, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	41 min
Sep 10, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay	32 min
Sep 10, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	42 min
Sep 10, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	42 min
Sep 10, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	35 min
Sep 10, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	33 min
Sep 10, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	26 min
Sep 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams	29 min
Sep 10, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	41 min
Sep 10, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	37 min
Sep 10, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	39 min
Sep 10, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	51 min
Sep 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay	34 min
Sep 10, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams	32 min
Sep 10, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	27 min
Sep 10, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	47 min
Sep 10, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	42 min
Sep 10, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	44 min
Sep 10, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	15 min
Sep 10, 12:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	36 min
Sep 10, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	17 min
Sep 10, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	22 min
Sep 10, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	46 min
Sep 10, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks	46 min
Sep 10, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	44 min
Sep 10, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	50 min
Sep 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	30 min
Sep 10, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	48 min
Sep 10, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	47 min
Sep 10, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	27 min
Sep 10, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	39 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.