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Red Flag Warning 26, NWS Hastings, NE

May 18, 20228 counties in Nebraska; Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at May 18, 2022, 2:49 PM CDT for 8 counties in Nebraska; Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It took effect at May 19, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2022, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
In effect from: May 19, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: May 19, 2022, 8:09 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 2142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this red flag warning went out at May 18, 11:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 11:58 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	31 min
May 17, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	28 min
May 17, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	30 min
May 17, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	31 min
May 17, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	31 min
May 17, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	23 min
May 17, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	27 min
May 17, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	30 min
May 17, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall	28 min
May 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	34 min
May 17, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Merrick	24 min
May 17, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	32 min
May 17, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	17 min
May 17, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	32 min
May 17, 10:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	27 min
May 17, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	16 min
May 17, 10:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	46 min
May 17, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	27 min
May 17, 7:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips, Rooks	29 min
May 17, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	36 min
May 17, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	35 min
May 17, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks, Smith	47 min
May 17, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	44 min
May 17, 8:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	30 min
May 17, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	45 min
May 17, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	43 min
May 17, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	29 min

Nearby

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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.