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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Hastings, NE

July 10, 20214 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2021, 3:06 AM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2021, 3:06 AM CDT (08:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2021, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 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), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 9, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 2169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

816 
WUUS53 KGID 100806
SVRGID
KSC089-123-141-183-100845-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0124.210710T0806Z-210710T0845Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Hastings NE
306 AM CDT Sat Jul 10 2021

The National Weather Service in Hastings has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Western Mitchell County in north central Kansas...
  Southwestern Jewell County in north central Kansas...
  Smith County in north central Kansas...
  Osborne County in north central Kansas...

* Until 345 AM CDT.

* At 306 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Kensington,
  or 13 miles east of Phillipsburg, moving southeast at 60 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage 
           to roofs, siding, and trees.

* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
  Athol and Cedar around 315 AM CDT.
  Gaylord around 320 AM CDT.
  Harlan around 325 AM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Portis, Osborne, Downs, Cawker City and Tipton.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3940 9905 3996 9907 3967 9810 3922 9842
      3922 9849 3913 9849 3913 9854
TIME...MOT...LOC 0806Z 305DEG 52KT 3975 9907 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

Mangels

1 follow-up statement

381 
WWUS53 KGID 100837
SVSGID

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
337 AM CDT Sat Jul 10 2021

KSC089-123-141-183-100847-
/O.EXP.KGID.SV.W.0124.000000T0000Z-210710T0845Z/
Mitchell KS-Jewell KS-Smith KS-Osborne KS-
337 AM CDT Sat Jul 10 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN MITCHELL...
SOUTHWESTERN JEWELL...SMITH AND OSBORNE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 345
AM CDT...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.  However gusty
winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM CDT for
north central Kansas.

LAT...LON 3940 9905 3996 9907 3967 9810 3922 9842
      3922 9849 3913 9849 3913 9854
TIME...MOT...LOC 0837Z 305DEG 52KT 3951 9863 

$$

Mangels

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	40 min
Jul 9, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Smith	52 min
Jul 10, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	42 min
Jul 10, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks, Smith	50 min
Jul 10, 3:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	20 min
Jul 10, 3:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	39 min
Jul 10, 4:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	47 min
Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	46 min
Jul 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	60 min
Jul 10, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	59 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.