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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Hastings, NE

May 12, 202211 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2022, 2:11 PM CDT for 11 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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: May 12, 2022, 2:11 PM CDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2022, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -365 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 332 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 May 12, 12:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 12:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 4:33 AM CDT, 9 hours 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 12, 1:13 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 1:29 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 1:35 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 1:50 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 2:07 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 12, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 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 12, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	38 min
May 12, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	46 min
May 12, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Furnas, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	38 min
May 12, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Kearney, Phelps	26 min
May 12, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton and 6 more	40 min
May 12, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GID	Greeley, Sherman, Valley	33 min
May 12, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	24 min
May 12, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance and 1 more	34 min
May 12, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	20 min
May 12, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Webster	25 min
May 12, 4:09 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper	2 hr
May 12, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Clay, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster	26 min
May 12, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	49 min
May 12, 4:33 PM CDT	Blowing Dust Warning	GID	Dawson	87 min
May 12, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	23 min
May 12, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 4 more	48 min
May 12, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Nuckolls, Thayer, York	52 min
May 12, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	46 min
May 12, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	GID	Hamilton, Merrick, Polk, York	29 min
May 12, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk	30 min
May 12, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Hamilton, Polk, York	48 min
May 12, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	47 min
May 12, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper, Phelps	27 min
May 12, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	34 min
May 12, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	32 min
May 12, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	28 min
May 12, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	25 min
May 12, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Fillmore, York	20 min
May 12, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	32 min
May 12, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	25 min
May 12, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	41 min
May 12, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	47 min
May 12, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks, Smith	38 min
May 12, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	39 min
May 12, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Mitchell	46 min
May 12, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	36 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.