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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2022, 7:22 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 14, 2022, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2022, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 244 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
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 14, 7:04 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 7:04 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Hastings NE 242 PM CDT Sat May 14 2022 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 151200- Phillips-Smith-Jewell-Rooks-Osborne-Mitchell-Valley-Greeley-Nance- Sherman-Howard-Merrick-Polk-Dawson-Buffalo-Hall-Hamilton-York- Gosper-Phelps-Kearney-Adams-Clay-Fillmore-Furnas-Harlan-Franklin- Webster-Nuckolls-Thayer- 242 PM CDT Sat May 14 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and portions of north central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Late This Afternoon and Tonight. Two rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Sunday morning. Strong to marginally severe thunderstorms remain possible late this afternoon and early evening, primarily along and south of a line from Geneva to Cambridge Nebraska and into north central Kansas. The primary hazards with these storms would be hail near the size of ping pong balls and wind gusts near 60 mph. Another round of strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to develop late tonight mainly after 3 AM and last into Sunday morning. The better chance for severe weather with these late night storms will be east of a Kearney to Franklin Nebraska, to Osborne Kansas line. The primary late night severe weather hazards would be hail to the size of golf balls and 60 mph wind gusts. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Strong to severe thunderstorms could linger through mid Sunday morning, mainly east of Highway 281. Additional thunderstorm chances return to the forecast area Monday night through Tuesday night, and then periodically Wednesday night through Thursday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to relay severe weather reports through tonight to the National Weather Service. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 30 min |
| May 15, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phelps | 32 min |
| May 15, 2:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 29 min |
| May 15, 3:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Kearney | 26 min |
| May 15, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 35 min |
| May 15, 3:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Fillmore | 27 min |
| May 15, 3:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 25 min |
| May 15, 3:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Webster | 29 min |
| May 15, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper, Phelps | 48 min |
| May 15, 3:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 27 min |
| May 15, 4:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Webster | 30 min |
| May 15, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phelps | 46 min |
| May 15, 4:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 26 min |
| May 15, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps | 48 min |
| May 15, 4:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Gosper | 29 min |
| May 15, 5:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Gosper | 28 min |
| May 15, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 10 min |
| May 15, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin, Webster | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phelps | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 25 min |
| May 15, 5:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 34 min |
| May 15, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 34 min |
| May 15, 5:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 23 min |
| May 15, 6:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 35 min |
| May 15, 6:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phelps | 33 min |
| May 15, 6:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 33 min |
| May 15, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Webster | 30 min |
| May 15, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 37 min |
| May 14, 7:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 26 min |
| May 14, 7:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 29 min |
| May 14, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Republic | 23 min |
| May 14, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 46 min |
| May 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 25 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.