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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2018, 11:26 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 30, 2018, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2018, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
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 Jun 30, 6:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 6:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Hastings NE 339 PM CDT Sat Jun 30 2018 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 011200- 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- 339 PM CDT Sat Jun 30 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and portions of north central Kansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Thunderstorms are possible through tonight. Thunderstorms are developing along a front this afternoon. Severe thunderstorms are possible with this activity with gusty winds to 60 mph and hail to golf-ball size. A tornado or two are possible. Additional thunderstorms will move into the area later this evening. Locally heavy rainfall could cause some localized flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. There are additional chances for thunderstorms Monday night and scattered chances again Thursday and Friday. Heat will be on the increase again next week, with afternoon and early evening heat index values reaching 100 degrees in parts of the area Tuesday through Thursday, including Independence Day. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is expected through the evening. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:18 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 30, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Polk, York | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Fillmore | 43 min |
| Jun 30, 8:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Phelps | 51 min |
| Jun 30, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 31 min |
| Jun 30, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 41 min |
| Jun 30, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 43 min |
| Jun 30, 10:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Kearney | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin, Webster | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 11:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Clay, Hamilton, Merrick, Nuckolls, Polk and 2 more | 39 min |
| Jun 30, 11:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Adams | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 11:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Nance, Nuckolls, Polk and 2 more | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 12:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Buffalo, Hall | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Merrick, Polk, Thayer, York | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 12:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Polk, York | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 48 min |
| Jun 30, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 12:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 1:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GID | Rooks | 31 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 12 hr |
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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.