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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Hastings, NE

August 29, 2025Franklin County, Harlan County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2025, 11:21 PM CDT for Franklin County, Harlan County, Kearney 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
Aug 29, 2025, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 288 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 2025-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 197 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 2025-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 7:08 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDValley6 hr
Aug 29, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHoward, Sherman, Valley22 min
Aug 29, 7:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSherman50 min
Aug 29, 8:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSherman42 min
Aug 29, 8:10 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDSherman5 hr
Aug 29, 8:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo48 min
Aug 29, 9:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo45 min
Aug 29, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Kearney42 min
Aug 29, 9:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson50 min
Aug 29, 10:04 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDBuffalo, Dawson4 hr
Aug 29, 10:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin47 min
Aug 29, 11:56 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDFranklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps3 hr
Aug 30, 2:22 AM CDTFlood WatchGIDAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Greeley and 15 more17 hr
Aug 30, 2:34 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningGIDHarlan4 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.