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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

March 13, 2024Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2024, 6:16 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
Mar 13, 2024, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 13, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 240 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
240 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 Mar 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 3:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Hastings NE
356 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
141200-
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-
356 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and
portions of north central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Thunderstorms will be possible across the majority of the forecast
area this evening into tonight. The best chance for thunderstorms
will be for areas along and south of a line from Oxford to Grand
Island, to Osceola Nebraska. These locations are also under a
Marginal or Slight Risk for severe weather this evening.

Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible within
the Marginal and Slight Risk areas. However, the areas most
favored to see strong to severe storms will be for areas along and
south of the Kansas Nebraska border.  Storms are expected to
initially develop in this area between 7 and 10 PM along a
generally west-to-east oriented axis, including the possibility
for a few supercells. The main threat with this initial activity
will be large hail up to around golf ball size, and wind gusts up
to around 60 MPH.

By around midnight, the threat for severe storms should largely
end within the outlook area, but weaker storms with small hail
and gusty winds could still occur almost anywhere, well into
early Thursday morning.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Between sunrise and noon on Thursday, there remains a slight
chance for a few weak thunderstorms, mainly within counties along
and east of Highway 281.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are encouraged to report any instances of hail or severe
thunderstorm wind gusts that might occur late this afternoon into
tonight.

&&

More information may be obtained at the following web page:
   https://www.weather.gov/hastings

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 13, 5:51 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
551 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024

KSZ017-132330-
Rooks KS-
551 PM CDT Wed Mar 13 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN ROOKS COUNTY THROUGH
630 PM CDT...

At 551 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southwest of Zurich, or 12 miles north of Ellis, moving
northeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This strong thunderstorm will be near...
  Zurich around 600 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until midnight CDT for
north central Kansas.

&&

LAT...LON 3920 9961 3940 9960 3937 9907 3913 9929
      3913 9961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 204DEG 25KT 3911 9951

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Hickford

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 5:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks39 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.