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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Hastings, NE

September 16, 2025Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2025, 3:14 PM CDT for Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
Sep 16, 2025, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 2025, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 222 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 12:00Z on 2025-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1220 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 12:00Z on 2025-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 6:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHall32 min
Sep 16, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall26 min
Sep 16, 3:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne24 min
Sep 16, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks40 min
Sep 16, 3:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne36 min
Sep 16, 3:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne24 min
Sep 16, 3:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSmith32 min
Sep 16, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks26 min
Sep 16, 4:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne21 min
Sep 16, 4:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne31 min
Sep 16, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne25 min
Sep 16, 4:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks22 min
Sep 16, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks30 min

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.