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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 2026, 4:59 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska; Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 14, 2026, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2026, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Jewell County, KS, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 538 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster | 39 min |
| Sep 14, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 37 min |
| Sep 14, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 50 min |
| Sep 14, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 42 min |
| Sep 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 35 min |
| Sep 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 47 min |
| Sep 14, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 49 min |
| Sep 14, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 47 min |
| Sep 14, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 45 min |
| Sep 14, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 48 min |
| Sep 14, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 36 min |
| Sep 14, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 24 min |
| Sep 14, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 44 min |
| Sep 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 32 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.