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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

June 19, 2021Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2021, 9:13 PM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 8 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 19, 2021, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 9:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	1 W Logan, KS
Jun 19, 9:49 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 55	Phillipsburg, KS
Jun 19, 10:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 61	Phillipsburg, KS	K-STATE MESONET.
Jun 19, 10:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 61	Phillipsburg, KS	K-STATE MESONET 1 SW OF TOWN.
Jun 19, 10:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 63	Plainville, KS
Jun 19, 10:05 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 E Prairie View, KS	POWER POLE DOWN.
Jun 19, 10:05 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 S Prairie View, KS	POWER LINE DOWN.
Jun 19, 10:10 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	7 Ese Prairie View, KS	8X12 SHED DESTROYED. GRAIN ELEVATOR LEG BLOWN DOWN.

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

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 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.

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: 2727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

005 
WWUS83 KGID 200213
SPSGID

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
913 PM CDT Sat Jun 19 2021
 
KSZ005-017-200300-
Rooks KS-Phillips KS-
913 PM CDT Sat Jun 19 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN ROOKS AND WESTERN
PHILLIPS COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT...

At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 8 miles northwest of Norton to 8 miles south of
Lenora to near Collyer. Movement was east at 35 mph.

Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
  Long Island and Prairie View.

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

LAT...LON 3957 9960 3957 9961 4000 9962 4000 9933
      3913 9928 3913 9960
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 266DEG 28KT 3989 10004 3950 9997 3910 10009 

$$

Rossi

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	39 min
Jun 19, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	48 min
Jun 19, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Webster	42 min
Jun 19, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	45 min
Jun 19, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster	45 min
Jun 19, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	47 min
Jun 19, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Hall	45 min
Jun 20, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	46 min
Jun 19, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	42 min
Jun 19, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks	51 min
Jun 19, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	30 min
Jun 19, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	46 min
Jun 19, 11:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	45 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.