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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Hastings, NE

May 5, 2019Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2019, 7:38 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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: May 5, 2019, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2019, 8:05 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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
May 5, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 5, 6:57 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:57 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 6:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 7:06 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:07 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:08 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:23 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:24 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 7:33 PM CDT, 5 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
May 5, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore	26 min
May 5, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	36 min
May 5, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	47 min
May 5, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	20 min
May 5, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	46 min
May 6, 6:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	47 min
May 6, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	42 min
May 6, 10:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	41 min
May 6, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	46 min
May 6, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	43 min
May 6, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	38 min
May 6, 12:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	44 min
May 6, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Webster	40 min
May 6, 12:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	22 min
May 6, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	50 min
May 6, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	32 min
May 6, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	32 min
May 6, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	24 min
May 6, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	51 min
May 6, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	36 min
May 6, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	31 min
May 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Nuckolls	6 hr
May 5, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	23 min
May 5, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	35 min
May 5, 9:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	31 min
May 5, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	39 min
May 6, 1:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	24 min
May 6, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	14 min
May 6, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	14 min
May 6, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	20 min

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.