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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Hastings, NE

May 29, 2016Adams County, Clay County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2016, 9:31 PM CDT for Adams County, Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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: May 29, 2016, 9:31 PM CDT (02:31 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2016, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 878 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 May 29, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 8:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 29, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
538 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
301200-
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-
538 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

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

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE WITHIN
THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH THE OVERALL-BEST CHANCES
LIKELY OCCURRING BEFORE MIDNIGHT. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE
WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL
OCCUR...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO AROUND GOLF BALL
SIZE...WIND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 60 MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

ON MONDAY...MEMORIAL DAY...SMALL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXIST
DURING THE DAY...BUT WITH BETTER CHANCES FOR MORE WIDESPREAD
COVERAGE ARRIVING DURING THE EVENING AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS. THERE IS A MARGINAL TO SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME STORMS COULD
BECOME SEVERE STARTING LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON...WITH THE MAIN
THREATS BEING HAIL UP TO NEAR THE SIZE OF PING PONG BALLS AND WIND
GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH. IF AN ORGANIZED COMPLEX OF STORMS HAPPENS
TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST...THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS COULD
INCREASE. IN ADDITION..HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH IS
POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING ISSUES.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY WITHIN
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ALMA TO
FULLERTON NEBRASKA...BEFORE ENDING TUESDAY NIGHT. THE THREAT FOR
SEVERE STORMS CURRENTLY APPEARS FAIRLY LOW FOR TUESDAY...BUT A
FEW STRONG STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED ON AN ISOLATED BASIS...ESPECIALLY
THROUGH NIGHTFALL.

&&

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

PFANNKUCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 29, 8:39 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 8:51 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 8:56 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 9:06 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 9:17 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 9:26 PM CDT, 5 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
May 29, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	27 min
May 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	47 min
May 29, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, York	44 min
May 29, 7:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	21 min
May 29, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	31 min
May 29, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	41 min
May 29, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	24 min
May 29, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton	48 hr
May 29, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay	43 min
May 29, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	49 min
May 29, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	32 min
May 29, 10:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls	12 hr
May 29, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	40 min
May 29, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	52 min
May 29, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	34 min
May 29, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	48 min
May 29, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	41 min
May 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2016 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2016

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.