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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Hastings, NE

June 6, 2022Merrick County, Nance County, Polk County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2022, 3:12 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nance County, Polk County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2022, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Polk County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 12:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 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
Jun 5, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	38 min
Jun 5, 7:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	50 min
Jun 5, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	46 min
Jun 5, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	52 min
Jun 5, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	42 min
Jun 6, 4:12 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GID	Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance and 3 more	5 hr
Jun 6, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	24 min
Jun 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	30 min
Jun 6, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	41 min
Jun 6, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman	59 min
Jun 5, 7:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	13 hr
Jun 5, 7:17 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	28 hr
Jun 5, 10:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	49 min
Jun 5, 11:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	37 min
Jun 5, 11:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Phillips, Rooks	3 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.