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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Hastings, NE

May 2, 2021Franklin County, Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2021, 8:54 PM CDT for Franklin County, Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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: May 2, 2021, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2021, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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
May 2, 9:01 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 68	1 W Logan, KS	MESONET STATION EW3001.
May 2, 9:32 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 56	6 Ssw Stockton, KS	ROOKS COUNTY AIRPORT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

328 
WUUS53 KGID 030154
SVRGID
KSC141-147-163-183-NEC061-065-083-030245-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0029.210503T0154Z-210503T0245Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Hastings NE
854 PM CDT Sun May 2 2021

The National Weather Service in Hastings has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Rooks County in north central Kansas...
  Western Smith County in north central Kansas...
  Western Osborne County in north central Kansas...
  Phillips County in north central Kansas...
  Southwestern Franklin County in south central Nebraska...
  Eastern Furnas County in south central Nebraska...
  Harlan County in south central Nebraska...

* Until 945 PM CDT.

* At 853 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Stamford to near Logan to 9 miles west of
  Palco, moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to 
           mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

* Locations impacted include...
  Phillipsburg, Plainville, Stockton, Alma, Franklin, Oxford, Logan,
  Kensington, Orleans, Natoma, Palco, Agra, Stamford, Kirwin,
  Republican City, Woodston, Prairie View, Long Island, Damar and
  Naponee.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 9961 4000 9963 4000 9981 4003 9983
      4035 9972 4035 9956 4023 9890 3942 9889
      3913 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0153Z 291DEG 35KT 4016 9959 3963 9958 3923 9973 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

Mangels

1 follow-up statement

369 
WWUS53 KGID 030236
SVSGID

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
936 PM CDT Sun May 2 2021

NEC065-030245-
/O.CAN.KGID.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-210503T0245Z/
Furnas NE-
936 PM CDT Sun May 2 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN FURNAS COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned 
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
north central Kansas...and south central Nebraska.

LAT...LON 3913 9960 3982 9951 4031 9934 4023 9890
      3942 9889 3913 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 282DEG 25KT 4019 9910 3954 9919 3912 9947 

$$

KSC141-147-163-183-NEC061-083-030245-
/O.CON.KGID.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-210503T0245Z/
Rooks KS-Smith KS-Osborne KS-Phillips KS-Franklin NE-Harlan NE-
936 PM CDT Sun May 2 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT
FOR ROOKS...WESTERN SMITH...WESTERN OSBORNE...PHILLIPS...SOUTHWESTERN
FRANKLIN AND EASTERN HARLAN COUNTIES...

At 935 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 7 miles northwest of Bloomington to 7 miles northwest
of Woodston to 7 miles south of Zurich, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile 
         homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

Locations impacted include...
Phillipsburg, Plainville, Stockton, Alma, Franklin, Kensington,
Natoma, Palco, Agra, Kirwin, Republican City, Woodston, Naponee,
Bloomington, Alton, Zurich, Glade, Athol, Huntley and Speed.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3913 9960 3982 9951 4031 9934 4023 9890
      3942 9889 3913 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 282DEG 25KT 4019 9910 3954 9919 3912 9947 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

Mangels

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Kearney, Phelps	25 min
May 2, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Gosper, Kearney, Phelps	31 min
May 2, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	25 min
May 2, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	40 min
May 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	35 min
May 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	32 min
May 2, 7:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	25 min
May 2, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	33 min
May 2, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	35 min
May 2, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	33 min
May 2, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Hamilton, Kearney, Phelps, Polk, York	44 min
May 2, 8:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Adams, Kearney	100 min
May 2, 8:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Gosper, Kearney, Phelps	5 hr
May 2, 8:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Polk, York	12 hr
May 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	32 min
May 2, 9:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney, Phelps	6 hr
May 2, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	49 min
May 2, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Webster	45 min
May 2, 10:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Hamilton	6 hr
May 2, 10:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Nuckolls, Webster	45 min
May 2, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	61 min
May 3, 3:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney, Phelps	7 hr
May 3, 3:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Hamilton	6 hr
May 3, 4:29 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	GID	Dawson, Greeley, Sherman, Valley	29 hr
May 2, 7:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Rooks	4 hr
May 2, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	47 min
May 2, 11:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.