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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Apr 3, 2026, 3:10 AM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska; Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 3, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Apr 3, 2026, 3:10 AM CDT (08:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 3, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Dawson County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2026Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2026Every red flag warning in 2026
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.