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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Hastings, NE

May 2, 2024Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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 2, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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 1, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 2345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 6.9

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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 1, 6:52 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 6:52 PM CDT, 6 hours 8 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 1, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	25 min
May 1, 8:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	43 min
May 1, 9:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	39 min
May 1, 10:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Phelps	28 min
May 1, 11:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin, Gosper, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	34 min
May 1, 11:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Webster	43 min
May 1, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Webster	52 min
May 2, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster	50 min
May 2, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	56 min
May 1, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	25 min
May 1, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	56 min
May 2, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Jewell, Phillips, Smith	39 min
May 2, 12:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GID	Osborne, Rooks	47 min
May 2, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	15 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.