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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Hastings, NE

May 2, 2021Franklin County, Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2021, 10:30 PM CDT for Franklin County, Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: May 2, 2021, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2021, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 1069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 12.1

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The text

As transmitted.

035 
WUUS53 KGID 030330
SVRGID
KSC089-123-141-183-NEC061-129-181-030415-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0031.210503T0330Z-210503T0415Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Hastings NE
1030 PM CDT Sun May 2 2021

The National Weather Service in Hastings has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Western Mitchell County in north central Kansas...
  Jewell County in north central Kansas...
  Smith County in north central Kansas...
  Osborne County in north central Kansas...
  Western Nuckolls County in south central Nebraska...
  Eastern Franklin County in south central Nebraska...
  Webster County in south central Nebraska...

* Until 1115 PM CDT.

* At 1030 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Bladen to near Lebanon to 8 miles south of
  Natoma, moving east at 35 mph.

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

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Superior, Smith Center, Osborne, Red Cloud, Blue Hill, Downs,
  Mankato, Nelson, Cawker City, Glen Elder, Campbell, Natoma,
  Lawrence, Bladen, Guide Rock, Lebanon, Tipton, Burr Oak, Gaylord
  and Portis.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3950 9905 3983 9889 4035 9882 4035 9802
      3987 9811 3922 9837 3922 9849 3913 9849
      3913 9905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0330Z 264DEG 31KT 4029 9855 3985 9861 3906 9900 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Furnas, Harlan	51 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.