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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Hastings, NE

June 21, 20196 counties in Nebraska; Jewell County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2019, 5:30 AM CDT for 6 counties in Nebraska; Jewell County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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 21, 2019, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2019, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jewell County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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 20, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 13.1

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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 Jun 21, 4:52 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 4:52 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 4:21 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 4:47 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:53 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:00 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 21, 5:22 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:23 AM CDT, 7 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
Jun 20, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper	41 min
Jun 20, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	40 min
Jun 20, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	45 min
Jun 20, 11:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas, Gosper	9 hr
Jun 20, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	35 min
Jun 20, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	41 min
Jun 21, 12:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	45 min
Jun 21, 12:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas	9 hr
Jun 21, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 3 more	51 min
Jun 21, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Howard, Sherman	46 min
Jun 21, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton and 5 more	40 min
Jun 21, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	46 min
Jun 21, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 5 more	45 min
Jun 21, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	47 min
Jun 21, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	28 min
Jun 21, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper	26 min
Jun 21, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance, Polk and 1 more	48 min
Jun 21, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper	37 min
Jun 21, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	25 min
Jun 21, 2:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson, Franklin, Kearney, Phelps	51 min
Jun 21, 3:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper	38 min
Jun 21, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster	47 min
Jun 21, 3:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	23 min
Jun 21, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	43 min
Jun 21, 4:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	45 min
Jun 21, 4:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	24 min
Jun 21, 4:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	3 hr
Jun 21, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	37 min
Jun 21, 5:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	67 min
Jun 21, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	19 min
Jun 21, 6:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	3 hr
Jun 21, 8:58 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas, Gosper	3 hr
Jun 21, 6:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2019 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2019 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.