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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Hastings, NE

August 11, 20194 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2019, 2:40 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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, 2:40 AM CDT (07:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2019, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 1183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Aug 11, 1:49 AM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:49 AM CDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
1250 AM CDT Sun Aug 11 2019

KSZ005-017-110630-
Rooks KS-Phillips KS-
1250 AM CDT Sun Aug 11 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ROOKS AND SOUTHERN PHILLIPS
COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM CDT...

At 1250 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Edmond to near Palco to 7 miles north of
Ogallah. Movement was east at 40 mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Plainville, Stockton, Palco, Kirwin, Woodston, Damar, Zurich, Glade,
Codell and Webster State Park.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Persons in campgrounds should consider seeking sturdy shelter until
these storms pass.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 9960 3957 9960 3957 9963 3964 9963
      3971 9907 3957 9907 3957 9905 3950 9904
      3913 9905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0550Z 260DEG 36KT 3956 9976 3927 9964 3910 9973

Thies

Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
120 AM CDT Sun Aug 11 2019

KSZ005-006-NEZ082>084-110715-
Phillips KS-Smith KS-Franklin NE-Harlan NE-Furnas NE-
120 AM CDT Sun Aug 11 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN SMITH...PHILLIPS...
SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN...SOUTHEASTERN FURNAS AND SOUTHERN HARLAN
COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM CDT...

At 120 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 9 miles south of Beaver City to Prairie View to
near Logan. Movement was east at 30 mph.

Winds gusts up to 45 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Phillipsburg, Alma, Logan, Kensington, Agra, Kirwin, Republican City,
Long Island, Prairie View, Naponee, Glade, Athol, Speed, Cedar,
Woodruff and Harlan County Dam.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 4004 9987 4014 9921 3991 9893 3957 9891
      3957 9963 4000 9963 4000 9982
TIME...MOT...LOC 0620Z 266DEG 27KT 4001 9982 3986 9956 3964 9954

Thies

Local storm report, Aug 11, 1:44 AM CDT, 56 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
Aug 11, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	35 min
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, 3:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Osborne	6 hr

Nearby

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.