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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2019, 5:59 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. 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
- Jun 8, 2019, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2019, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Dawson County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 8, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 Jun 8, 4:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 4:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Hastings NE 346 PM CDT Sat Jun 8 2019 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 091200- 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- 346 PM CDT Sat Jun 8 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and portions of north central Kansas. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Thunderstorms are expected to develop along a potent cold front in the Sandhills this afternoon and move across the forecast area this evening into the overnight hours, some of which may be strong to severe. The main time frame for severe weather will be after 6pm this evening through 3am tonight. The primary severe threats are hail up to golf ball size, and damaging wind gusts near 60mph. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect through 10pm for areas west of a Greeley to Kearney to Alma line. Additional watches are possible overnight. In addition to the severe threat, thunderstorms moving over the same locations repeatedly overnight may lead to areas of heavy rain and localized flooding, mainly near and south of Highway 6. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Showers and non severe thunderstorms are possible on Sunday, mainly during the morning. The next chance for showers and thunderstorms arrives late Monday night into Tuesday night as another front moves across the area. Thunderstorms return again Thursday night into Friday night. It is too early to determine if these storms will be strong or severe. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this evening and overnight. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings Thies
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 34 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.