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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Hastings, NE

July 30, 2018Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2018, 3:11 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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: Jul 30, 2018, 3:11 PM CDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2018, 3:27 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jewell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 30, 2:59 PM CDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:59 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 2:54 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:16 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:24 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:39 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:48 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:55 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:58 PM CDT, 13 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
Jul 29, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	26 min
Jul 29, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	37 min
Jul 29, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	48 min
Jul 29, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper, Phelps	36 min
Jul 29, 10:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	52 min
Jul 29, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	27 min
Jul 29, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	45 min
Jul 30, 6:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	21 min
Jul 30, 6:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	27 min
Jul 30, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	29 min
Jul 30, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	36 min
Jul 30, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	36 min
Jul 30, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	31 min
Jul 30, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	27 min
Jul 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Harlan	35 min
Jul 30, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	29 min
Jul 30, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	36 min
Jul 30, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Merrick, Polk	30 min
Jul 29, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	40 min
Jul 29, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	46 min
Jul 30, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	44 min
Jul 30, 6:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	6 hr
Jul 30, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	32 min
Jul 30, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	47 min
Jul 30, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	36 min
Jul 30, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2018 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.