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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Hastings, NE

August 25, 2023Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2023, 5:46 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
Aug 25, 2023, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2023, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Phillips County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2023-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 732 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2023-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 2:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley31 min
Aug 25, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley33 min
Aug 25, 3:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin37 min
Aug 25, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDNuckolls25 min
Aug 25, 4:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGosper33 min
Aug 25, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper39 min
Aug 25, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls31 min
Aug 25, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan35 min
Aug 25, 5:49 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas41 min
Aug 25, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGIDFurnas, Harlan48 min
Aug 25, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGIDFranklin, Furnas, Harlan42 min
Aug 25, 5:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips23 min
Aug 25, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips32 min
Aug 25, 5:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips24 min
Aug 25, 6:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks29 min
Aug 25, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks26 min
Aug 25, 6:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks36 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.