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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE

July 21, 2025Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2025, 7:59 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2025, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2025, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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.

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: 1000 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 21, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 7:52 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Hastings NE
752 PM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
221200-
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-
752 PM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and
portions of north central Kansas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Areas of flooding persist into tonight, particularly in areas near
and southeast of a line from Plainville to Red Cloud to Hebron.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

A Heat Advisory has been issued for Tuesday with heat indices up
to 105 degrees. Though not quite as hot, heat index values on
Wednesday will still be around 100 degrees.

While there are several chances for thunderstorms in the forecast
later in the week, the best chance for storms will be Wednesday
night through Thursday night when a weak cold front moves through
the area. A few strong to marginally severe storms may occur.

Heat index values could top 100 degrees again next weekend.

&&

More information may be obtained at the following web page:
   https://www.weather.gov/hastings

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
547 PM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

KSZ007-212330-
Jewell KS-
547 PM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN JEWELL COUNTY
THROUGH 630 PM CDT...

At 546 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles north of Esbon, or 37 miles northwest of Beloit, moving east at
10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel 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 storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern Jewell
County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3993 9822 3989 9850 4000 9850 4000 9821
TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 273DEG 8KT 3995 9845

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Billings Wright

Local storm report, Jul 21, 5:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Hastings NE
551 PM CDT Mon Jul 21 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0548 PM     Hail             10 SSW Osborne          39.31N 98.79W
07/21/2025  M0.88 Inch       Osborne            KS   Trained Spotter

            Nickel sized hail in Covert.

&&

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 6:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 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
Jul 21, 9:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	12 hr
Jul 22, 3:25 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas	6 hr
Jul 21, 7:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	5 hr
Jul 21, 7:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell	4 hr
Jul 21, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	43 min
Jul 21, 10:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Phillips, Rooks	3 hr
Jul 21, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	48 min
Jul 21, 11:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	15 hr
Jul 22, 12:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Smith	6 hr
Jul 22, 1:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	5 hr
Jul 22, 6:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	8 hr

Nearby

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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.