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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Apr 14, 2026, 1:47 AM CDT for 5 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 14, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 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 14, 2026, 1:47 AM CDT (06:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 14, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2026, 8:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:52 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 14, 12:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 12:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 51 min |
| Apr 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Polk | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 6:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Polk | 35 min |
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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.