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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2020, 11:14 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 26, 2020, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 26, 7:14 PM CDT, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 7:14 PM CDT, 4 hours before
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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 8:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 26, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 11:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 12:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 12:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 38 min |
| Jun 27, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 1:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 12:36 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 39 min |
| Jun 27, 1:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Mitchell | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 26 min |
| Jun 27, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 1:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Mitchell | 5 hr |
| Jun 27, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 2:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Smith | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 6:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | GID | Mitchell | 25 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GID | Mitchell | 9 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.