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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2024, 12:06 PM CDT for Furnas 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 6, 2024, 12:06 PM CDT (17:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2024, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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 6, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 6, 6:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:18 AM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 4:42 AM CDT, 7 hours 24 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Hastings NE 442 AM CDT Mon May 6 2024 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 070945- 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- 442 AM CDT Mon May 6 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and portions of north central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Thunderstorms are expected to initially begin developing late this morning, mainly west of Highway 281 and then expand in coverage and intensity as they track east of Highway 281 this afternoon. The most likely window for severe weather across south central Nebraska and north Central Kansas will be between noon and 7 PM today, with the storms likely tracking east of the outlook area thereafter. The primary severe weather threats will be hail to around the size of golf balls, wind gusts to 75 mph, and perhaps even a few tornadoes. Today will be a windy day regardless of any thunderstorms. Strong south southeasterly winds are expected ahead of the front today with gusts as high as 40 to 45 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. There will be a few off and on again chances for isolated thunderstorms Tuesday night through Thursday night across portions of the outlook area. However, severe weather is currently not expected through the remainder of the outlook period after Monday evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to relay reports of hail, damaging wind, and tornadoes. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 25 min |
| May 6, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 39 min |
| May 6, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 38 min |
| May 6, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Kearney | 24 min |
| May 6, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 45 min |
| May 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 39 min |
| May 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hall | 45 min |
| May 6, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 35 min |
| May 6, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams | 44 min |
| May 6, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 31 min |
| May 6, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 22 min |
| May 6, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 49 min |
| May 6, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 16 min |
| May 6, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Nance | 43 min |
| May 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 17 min |
| May 6, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Merrick, Nuckolls, Polk and 2 more | 50 min |
| May 6, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 38 min |
| May 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 44 min |
| May 6, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 47 min |
| May 6, 1:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 48 min |
| May 6, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 45 min |
| May 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 30 min |
| May 6, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 49 min |
| May 6, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 33 min |
| May 6, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 37 min |
| May 6, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 32 min |
| May 6, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 39 min |
| May 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 30 min |
| May 6, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 19 min |
| May 6, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne | 43 min |
| May 6, 6:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 49 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.