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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Hastings, NE

June 25, 2021Buffalo County, Sherman County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2021, 3:47 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 14 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: Jun 25, 2021, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2021, 4:01 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Sherman County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
Jun 25, 4:10 PM CDT	HAIL 0.7	Hazard, NE	PEA TO DIME SIZED HAIL.
Jun 25, 4:11 PM CDT	HAIL 1	2 S Hazard, NE	SPOTTER NETWORK REPORT. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

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
Jun 25, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

040 
WUUS53 KGID 252047
SVRGID
NEC019-163-252130-
/O.NEW.KGID.SV.W.0097.210625T2047Z-210625T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Hastings NE
347 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

The National Weather Service in Hastings has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northeastern Buffalo County in south central Nebraska...
  Southern Sherman County in central Nebraska...

* Until 430 PM CDT.

* At 347 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southwest
  of Hazard, or 24 miles north of Kearney, moving east 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...
  Litchfield around 400 PM CDT.

Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include
Hazard, Ravenna and Rockville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4099 9877 4098 9929 4105 9931 4105 9921
      4114 9921 4123 9882
TIME...MOT...LOC 2047Z 258DEG 18KT 4105 9920 

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

Billings Wright

1 follow-up statement

002 
WWUS53 KGID 252101
SVSGID

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
401 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

NEC019-163-252111-
/O.CAN.KGID.SV.W.0097.000000T0000Z-210625T2130Z/
Buffalo NE-Sherman NE-
401 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BUFFALO AND
SOUTHERN SHERMAN COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
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 has been cancelled.  However small hail is
still possible with this thunderstorm.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CDT for
south central and central Nebraska.

LAT...LON 4099 9877 4098 9929 4105 9931 4105 9921
      4114 9921 4123 9882
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 258DEG 18KT 4106 9911 

$$

Billings Wright

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	46 min
Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	34 min
Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	45 min
Jun 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	45 min
Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	37 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	46 min
Jun 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	39 min
Jun 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	37 min
Jun 25, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	49 min
Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	41 min
Jun 25, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman	32 min
Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	45 min
Jun 25, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	26 min
Jun 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	50 min
Jun 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard, Merrick	48 min
Jun 25, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney, Phelps	29 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.