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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Hastings, NE

April 24, 2025Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2025, 11:09 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 24, 2025, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2025, 11:32 PM CDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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, 4.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1255 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2025-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 9:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks29 min
Apr 24, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks51 min
Apr 24, 9:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne24 min
Apr 24, 10:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne28 min
Apr 24, 10:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks27 min
Apr 24, 10:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell23 min
Apr 24, 10:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks31 min
Apr 24, 11:07 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDMitchell, Osborne5 hr
Apr 25, 1:06 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith3 hr

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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.