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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Hastings, NE

August 26, 20194 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2019, 5:20 AM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 40 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 26, 2019, 5:20 AM CDT (10:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2019, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Howard County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 992 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 25, 6:45 PM CDT, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 6:45 PM CDT, 10 hours 35 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 25, 8:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Hall	12 hr
Aug 26, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	35 min
Aug 26, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	46 min
Aug 26, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney, Phelps	43 min
Aug 26, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Kearney and 2 more	38 min
Aug 26, 6:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore, Hamilton, Polk, York	45 min
Aug 26, 6:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Merrick, York	41 min
Aug 26, 6:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Hamilton, York	47 min
Aug 26, 7:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore	44 min
Aug 26, 7:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Hall	3 hr
Aug 26, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Thayer	46 min
Aug 26, 8:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Greeley, Hall and 7 more	60 hr
Aug 26, 9:39 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Hall	24 hr
Aug 26, 10:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	26 hr

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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.