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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Hastings, NE

May 21, 2024Dawson County, Gosper County, Phelps County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2024, 2:51 AM CDT for Dawson County, Gosper County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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: May 21, 2024, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2024, 3:30 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dawson County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Phelps County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 20, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.0

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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 May 21, 12:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 12:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 20, 9:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 21, 1:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 1:38 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 1:54 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 2:19 AM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 2:35 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 2:47 AM CDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	24 min
May 20, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton	46 min
May 20, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Merrick	30 min
May 20, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	52 min
May 20, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	49 min
May 20, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	33 min
May 20, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Merrick	49 min
May 20, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	18 min
May 20, 8:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	50 min
May 20, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	29 min
May 20, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	30 min
May 20, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	48 min
May 21, 1:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	35 min
May 21, 1:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	37 min
May 21, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	33 min
May 21, 1:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Merrick	8 hr
May 21, 1:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	36 min
May 21, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper	41 min
May 21, 2:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Merrick, Polk, York	41 min
May 21, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	53 min
May 21, 2:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	43 min
May 21, 2:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Polk, York	6 hr
May 21, 3:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	38 min
May 21, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall, Howard, Sherman	28 min
May 21, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley, Howard, Merrick, Nance	31 min
May 21, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Webster	28 min
May 21, 4:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman, Valley	51 min
May 21, 4:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Nuckolls and 3 more	45 min
May 21, 4:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk, York	27 min
May 21, 5:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	16 min
May 21, 10:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, York	47 min
May 21, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	18 min
May 21, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	35 min
May 21, 3:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	17 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.