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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Hastings, NE

August 11, 2019Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2019, 12:41 AM CDT for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; Phillips County, Kansas. 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: Aug 11, 2019, 12:41 AM CDT (05:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2019, 1:16 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Phillips County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 2149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.8

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 5:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more	22 hr
Aug 11, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	40 min
Aug 11, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	55 min
Aug 11, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	39 min
Aug 11, 1:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Rooks	5 hr
Aug 11, 2:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	31 min
Aug 11, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	35 min
Aug 11, 3:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Osborne	6 hr

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.