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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Goodland, KS

May 26, 2021Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2021, 7:48 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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 26, 2021, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2021, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 26, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 9.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

526 
WUUS53 KGLD 270048
SVRGLD
NEC087-270115-
/O.NEW.KGLD.SV.W.0093.210527T0048Z-210527T0115Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Goodland KS
748 PM CDT Wed May 26 2021

The National Weather Service in Goodland has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Hitchcock County in southwestern Nebraska...

* Until 815 PM CDT.

* At 748 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 4 miles west of
  Palisade, or 14 miles northwest of Trenton, moving northeast at 15
  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...
  Palisade around 805 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for southwestern
Nebraska.

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

&&

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 AM CDT for southwestern
Nebraska.

LAT...LON 4029 10110 4027 10129 4035 10129 4035 10093
TIME...MOT...LOC 0048Z 230DEG 13KT 4033 10119 

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

Lockhart

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	8 hr
May 26, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	42 min
May 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	39 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	28 min
May 26, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	57 min
May 26, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	48 min
May 26, 8:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	6 hr
May 26, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	17 min
May 26, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	46 min
May 26, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	22 min
May 26, 10:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	66 min
May 26, 11:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Red Willow	62 min
May 27, 1:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock, Red Willow	62 min
May 27, 5:16 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	GLD	Hitchcock	11 hr
May 27, 7:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Hitchcock	80 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.