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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2018, 5:29 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 1, 2018, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2018, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Osborne County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 1, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 1, 4:51 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 49 min |
| Aug 31, 11:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 48 min |
| Sep 1, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 42 min |
| Sep 1, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 22 min |
| Sep 1, 12:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Furnas, Phelps | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hall, Phelps | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 1:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Webster | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 2:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hamilton | 42 min |
| Sep 1, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk | 38 min |
| Sep 1, 2:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Polk, York | 43 min |
| Sep 1, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GID | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas, Hamilton and 7 more | 4 days |
| Aug 31, 11:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 30 min |
| Sep 1, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 24 min |
| Sep 1, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 38 min |
| Sep 1, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 25 min |
| Sep 1, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 27 min |
| Sep 1, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 26 min |
| Sep 1, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 32 min |
| Sep 1, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 36 min |
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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.