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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2024, 5:00 AM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr. 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 31, 2024, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2024, 10:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1002 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at May 31, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 4:00 AM CDT, 1 hour before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 2:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Hastings NE 237 AM CDT Fri May 31 2024 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 011200- 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- 237 AM CDT Fri May 31 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and portions of north central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Localized flooding may continue today in areas that recieved heavy rainfall on Thursday and Thursday night. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms remain possible through today and tonight. The threat for severe weather is low, but some storms could still produce small hail, gusty winds, and locally heavy rain. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Daily chances for thunderstorms continue Saturday through Wednesday. A few strong to marginally severe storms are possible on Saturday, mainly during the late afternoon into the overnight. A higher chance for severe thunderstorms arrives Sunday evening into Sunday night, although details remain somewhat uncertain at this time. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Sherman | 52 min |
| May 30, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 50 min |
| May 30, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 52 min |
| May 30, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Buffalo | 49 min |
| May 30, 9:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 47 min |
| May 30, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 49 min |
| May 30, 10:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Dawson | 6 hr |
| May 31, 1:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman, Valley | 5 hr |
| May 31, 1:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Howard | 3 hr |
| May 31, 3:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 6 hr |
| May 31, 4:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Phillips | 54 min |
| May 31, 6:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Osborne | 31 hr |
| May 31, 10:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 27 hr |
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.