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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Hastings, NE

July 10, 2026Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2026, 6:53 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
Jul 10, 2026, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2026, 7:28 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 296 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2026-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2026-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 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
Jul 9, 11:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson, Furnas, Gosper48 min
Jul 9, 11:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks46 min
Jul 10, 12:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks40 min
Jul 10, 6:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks43 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.