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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Hastings, NE

April 16, 2024Polk County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2024, 7:48 AM CDT for Polk County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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: Apr 16, 2024, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2024, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Polk County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 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
Apr 16, 2:14 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 Apr 16, 6:56 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 6:56 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 5:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 5:17 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 5:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 16, 5:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 16, 5:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 16, 6:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 16, 6:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 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
Apr 16, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	30 min
Apr 16, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	28 min
Apr 16, 12:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	30 min
Apr 16, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	26 min
Apr 16, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	31 min
Apr 16, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	49 min
Apr 16, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	31 min
Apr 16, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	32 min
Apr 16, 2:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GID	Franklin, Webster	28 min
Apr 16, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Nuckolls, Webster	32 min
Apr 16, 2:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	26 min
Apr 16, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton and 5 more	45 min
Apr 16, 2:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney	24 min
Apr 16, 2:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	30 min
Apr 16, 2:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls	22 min
Apr 16, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton and 7 more	35 min
Apr 16, 3:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 6 more	36 min
Apr 16, 4:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Greeley, Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk and 2 more	30 min
Apr 16, 5:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	28 min
Apr 16, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	30 min
Apr 16, 6:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton	45 min
Apr 16, 6:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore, Thayer, York	46 min
Apr 16, 7:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Polk, York	38 min
Apr 16, 7:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Polk, York	38 min
Apr 16, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin, Kearney	46 min
Apr 16, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin, Webster	46 min
Apr 16, 11:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Nuckolls, Webster	50 min
Apr 16, 12:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	37 min
Apr 16, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	38 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.