Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2021, 6:12 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2021, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2021, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Osborne County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:28 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 7 S Alton, KS | SCATTERED HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted.
356
WUUS53 KGID 122312
SVRGID
KSC141-122345-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0161.210812T2312Z-210812T2345Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Hastings NE
612 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
The National Weather Service in Hastings has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Osborne County in north central Kansas...
* Until 645 PM CDT.
* At 612 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Alton, or 33
miles southeast of Phillipsburg, moving north at 20 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...
Alton around 625 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3926 9905 3930 9905 3954 9904 3952 9866
3926 9868
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 179DEG 16KT 3941 9888
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
ADP1 follow-up statement
812
WWUS53 KGID 122324
SVSGID
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
624 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
KSC141-122345-
/O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0161.000000T0000Z-210812T2345Z/
Osborne KS-
624 PM CDT Thu Aug 12 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY...
At 623 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Alton, or 33
miles southeast of Phillipsburg, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
This severe storm will be near...
Alton around 645 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3926 9905 3930 9905 3954 9904 3952 9866
3926 9868
TIME...MOT...LOC 2323Z 174DEG 12KT 3940 9890
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.25 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
ADPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne | 23 min |
| Aug 12, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 24 min |
| Aug 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 23 min |
| Aug 12, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 6:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.