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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Hastings, NE

September 17, 2022Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2022, 6:40 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 8 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
Sep 17, 2022, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2022, 6:48 PM CDT
In force
8 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2022-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 426 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2022-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-357 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1300 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 9:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson33 min
Sep 16, 10:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson29 min
Sep 16, 11:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson28 min
Sep 16, 11:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDValley35 min
Sep 16, 11:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSherman28 min
Sep 16, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley, Valley47 min
Sep 17, 12:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley17 min
Sep 17, 1:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMerrick34 min
Sep 17, 1:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPolk28 min
Sep 17, 2:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas36 min
Sep 17, 2:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHarlan30 min
Sep 17, 3:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin37 min
Sep 17, 3:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan26 min
Sep 17, 3:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin19 min
Sep 17, 3:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster39 min
Sep 17, 4:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDThayer36 min
Sep 17, 4:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDWebster32 min
Sep 17, 4:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson29 min
Sep 17, 4:42 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDNuckolls, Thayer, Webster33 min
Sep 17, 5:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDNuckolls, Thayer26 min
Sep 17, 6:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDNance42 min
Sep 17, 2:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell27 min
Sep 17, 3:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell30 min
Sep 17, 3:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSmith23 min
Sep 17, 6:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell28 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.