Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Hastings, NE

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Hastings NE
1213 AM CDT Wed Aug 16 2017

.SHORT TERM...(This evening through Wednesday)
Issued at 326 PM CDT Tue Aug 15 2017

This has been a tricky forecast today. The mesoscale features will
impact thunderstorm evolution tonight. An outflow boundary kicked
out from thunderstorms overnight pushed south and reinforced the
boundary near the KS/NE border. Due to this, the boundary was
slower to retreat back to the north this afternoon. Around 3pm the
boundary has pushed north of Kearney and Grand Island, NE.

The short-term high-resolutions have struggled to grasp the slow
down of the boundary retreating back to the north and how this
will impact later convective evolution. The convection that has
developed just west of the area early this afternoon is expected
to stay just out of the forecast area. The trend this afternoon
with the HRRR and the 12z NAMnest is that convection will develop
along the main front further west and be slower to reach
central/south central Nebraska. Do not have a clear idea of how
this mesoscale boundary will impact thunderstorm development, but
am not surprised as of 3pm that some activity has developed along
it.

All of this being said, am still expecting the main front to push
eastward as the upper low lifts out and for this to be the main
focus for widespread convection into the evening and overnight
hours. Did slow down the eastward progression of the precipitation some
this evening into the overnight hours.

As has already occurred, any of this activity this afternoon and
evening could be strong to severe with ample instability and
marginal shear. Large hail and some damaging wind gusts are
possible. Additionally heavy rainfall could cause flooding. Have
opted not to issue a Flash Flood watch as I do not feel that
widespread flooding will occur. That is not to say that some areas
will not see a flood or flash flood warning with this activity,
especially if it trains over the same area. Only a couple of areas
have antecedent conditions that would result in a quick issuance
of a warning if heavy storms overrun the same areas as storms over
the weekend.

Currently expecting the main MCS to move into eastern
Nebraska/Kansas by the Wednesday morning hours. The upper
disturbance will not exit across the Central Plains until
Wednesday afternoon/evening and this disturbance will provide the
upper support for the chance for thunderstorms during the day
Wednesday. Instability is 1000-1500 J/kg, with 30 kts shear. Some
of these storms could be strong to marginally severe.

.LONG TERM...(Wednesday night through Tuesday)
Issued at 326 PM CDT Tue Aug 15 2017

After this upper trough exits Wednesday night, Thursday looks dry
with highs in the 80s. This is an active period though, and the
dry period will not remain for long. A few upper waves will move
across the area through the weekend bringing additional rain
chances. These chances do not look to be as widespread as what is
expected today, but none-the-less a chance for precipitation.

The upper flow becomes more zonal to slightly southwesterly with
some weak ridging for the start of the work week. Temperatures are
generally warmer than we have seen for some time, but still only
near to slightly above normal for mid-August. Scattered
precipitation chances continue through Tuesday. See more details
on Monday below in the Eclipse section.

.ECLIPSE...

Total Solar Eclipse Monday August 21st around 1pm CDT

As Monday draws closer the forecast guidance is coming into
slightly better agreement, but confidence is still not overly high
on how the forecast for Monday will evolve. The GFS/ECMWF are in
fairly good agreement with a frontal boundary moving into the area
overnight Sunday into Monday from a passing upper wave moving
across the Northern Plains. They show this boundary stalling out
and being a potential focus for precipitation potential later in
the day Monday. With this, confidence on a cloud forecast is low,
but there could be at least some higher clouds around during the
day. Continue to watch this forecast as the time period nears.

&&

.AVIATION...(For the 06Z KGRI/KEAR TAFS through 06Z Wednesday)
Issued at 1209 AM CDT Wed Aug 16 2017

Thunderstorms will continue across the KGRI terminal for a few
hours yet, and another line of thunderstorms will move into the
KEAR terminal in the next couple of hours. Some thunderstorms will
remain in the area through much of the day, before moving out this
afternoon and evening.

&&

.CLIMATE...
Issued at 326 PM CDT Tue Aug 15 2017

.Grand Island falls 1 DAY SHORT of tying the record for
"Consecutive July-August days without exceeding 85 degrees"..

A warm front lifting north this afternoon allowed Grand Island
airport to exceed 85 degrees for the first time since July 25th,
thus ending a 20-day streak of high temperatures 85 degrees-or-
cooler which lasted from July 26th-Aug. 14th. Because both July-Aug
are the warmest two months of the calendar year on average, with
normal/average highs ranging mainly 84-88 degrees, this streak was
actually quite noteworthy despite falling just short of the record.

Details of the current records for Grand Island follow:

* Top-4 Longest July-August streaks without exceeding 85 degrees *

- Grand Island (records include 121 years):
21 days...Aug. 11-31, 1964
20 days...July 26-Aug. 14, 2017 (ENDED TODAY)
18 days...July 11-28, 1993
16 days...July 8-23, 1992

&&

.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...None.
KS...None.
&&

SHORT TERM...Billings Wright
LONG TERM...Billings Wright
AVIATION...JCB
CLIMATE...Pfannkuch

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Hastings NE
1227 AM CDT Wed Aug 16 2017

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
161200-
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-
1227 AM CDT Wed Aug 16 2017

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and
portions of north central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Strong thunderstorms are expected to continue through the night.
The strongest storms could have small hail and wind gusts to
around 50 mph. Heavy rain is possible which may cause flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Thunderstorm chances persist early Wednesday and again Wednesday
afternoon as a upper disturbance moves across the area.

Outside of Wednesday there are multiple chances for precipitation
through the weekend and into Monday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon and tonight.

&&

More information may be obtained at the following web page:
   https://www.weather.gov/hastings

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
324 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

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

0310 AM     TSTM WND GST     PHILLIPSBURG AIRPORT    39.74N 99.32W
08/16/2017  M58 MPH          PHILLIPS           KS   AWOS

&&

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
329 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

KSZ005-006-017-018-NEZ084-085-160915-
Rooks KS-Phillips KS-Smith KS-Osborne KS-Franklin NE-Webster NE-
329 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ROOKS...SMITH...OSBORNE...EASTERN
PHILLIPS...WESTERN WEBSTER AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 415 AM CDT...

At 329 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Hildreth to 8 miles north of Athol to 6
miles south of Kirwin to near Damar. Movement was east at 35 mph.

Half inch hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Plainville, Smith Center, Osborne, Stockton, Red Cloud, Franklin,
Downs, Kensington, Hildreth, Campbell, Natoma, Palco, Agra, Bladen,
Lebanon, Kirwin, Upland, Woodston, Damar and Gaylord.

LAT...LON 3913 9960 3932 9960 3957 9917 4035 9918
      4035 9849 3913 9850
TIME...MOT...LOC 0829Z 291DEG 31KT 4026 9901 3988 9895 3958 9913 3932
9950

Rossi

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
337 AM CDT WED AUG 16 2017

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

0319 AM     TSTM WND GST     PHILLIPSBURG AIRPORT    39.74N 99.32W
08/16/2017  M67 MPH          PHILLIPS           KS   AWOS

&&

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