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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 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.
- 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
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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</html>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
HickfordThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 39 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.