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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2018, 6:40 PM CDT for Franklin County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 25, 2018, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2018, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 502 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 May 25, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 44 min |
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 29 min |
| May 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nance | 25 min |
| May 24, 8:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 41 min |
| May 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 38 min |
| May 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 46 min |
| May 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 39 min |
| May 24, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 38 min |
| May 24, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne, Smith | 42 min |
| May 24, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 41 min |
| May 24, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 49 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.