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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2019, 6:26 PM CDT for Furnas County, Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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
- Sep 30, 2019, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2019, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Sep 30, 6:26 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 6:26 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Hastings NE 357 PM CDT Mon Sep 30 2019 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 011200- 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- 357 PM CDT Mon Sep 30 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 cold front this evening for areas along and north of I-80. Some of these storms may be severe with hail to the size of quarters and isolated wind gusts to 60 MPH. Additional thunderstorms are possible across the rest of the area late overnight into Tuesday morning. Heavy rain and localized flooding are possible with thunderstorms this evening and tonight mainly across south central Nebraska. Please see the Flash Flood Watch message for more information. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Rounds of rain and thunderstorms will continue through Tuesday and Tuesday night as the cold front slowly pushes southward. As a result, the Flash Flood Watch remains in effect across the entire area through Tuesday night. Early Thursday morning, there will be the potential for some patchy frost across far west and northwestern portions of the outlook area, mainly in Valley and Dawson Counties. Thunderstorm chances return to the forecast Friday and Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed after 7pm tonight. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings Petr/ADP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 30, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
454 PM CDT Mon Sep 30 2019
KSZ005-NEZ082-083-302245-
Phillips KS-Harlan NE-Furnas NE-
454 PM CDT Mon Sep 30 2019
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN PHILLIPS...
SOUTHEASTERN FURNAS AND SOUTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM
CDT...
At 453 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Almena, or 9 miles east of Norton, moving northeast at 35 mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Stamford, Prairie View, Long Island and Woodruff.
LAT...LON 4017 9960 4003 9925 3975 9963 4000 9963
4000 9976
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 218DEG 32KT 3982 9972
JCBLocal storm report, Sep 30, 5:26 PM CDT, 1 hour before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 3:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 42 hr |
| Sep 30, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 38 min |
| Sep 30, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 48 min |
| Sep 30, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 14 min |
| Sep 30, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps, Sherman | 40 min |
| Sep 30, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Furnas | 26 min |
| Sep 30, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 47 min |
| Sep 30, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 44 min |
| Sep 30, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Howard, Sherman | 34 min |
| Sep 30, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 38 min |
| Sep 30, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 51 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.