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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Hastings, NE

July 7, 2022Clay County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2022, 4:37 PM CDT for Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 7, 2022, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2022, 5:05 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
0.0 in

County Clay County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2022-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2022-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 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 tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 6, 6:59 PM CDT, 21 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 6:59 PM CDT, 21 hours 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 10:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDWebster37 min
Jul 7, 12:57 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDYork33 min
Jul 7, 2:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDThayer53 min
Jul 7, 3:12 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDThayer3 hr
Jul 7, 4:43 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDNuckolls, Webster114 min
Jul 6, 9:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSmith32 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.