And isolated severe thunderstorm pushed through Valley County during the late evening hours, dropping quarter to ping pong ball size hail and producing 60 mph wind gusts near Ord.
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And isolated severe thunderstorm pushed through Valley County during the late evening hours, dropping quarter to ping pong ball size hail and producing 60 mph wind gusts near Ord.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 24, 5:47 PM CST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 647 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009 .AVIATION...FOR THE 00Z KGRI TAF. A COMPLICATED FORECAST SHAPING UP FOR THE GRAND ISLAND TERMINAL OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS AS A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE AREA. INITIALLY FOR THIS EVENING...EXPECT A FEW WEAK ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS TO POSSIBLY SLIP INTO THE TERMINAL AREA ALTHOUGH LOW COVERAGE OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY LEAVE THIS CONVECTIVE THREAT AS MORE OF A VICINITY NUISANCE ISSUE. OTHERWISE...ATTENTION THEN SHIFTS TOWARD LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY ON TUESDAY WHEN THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE TERMINAL. EXPECT THIS WILL BRING A BETTER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH SOME MVFR CLOUD CEILINGS AND BRIEF VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS THROUGH MID MORNING. MANY QUESTIONS THEN EXIST FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS AS SOME OF THE GUIDANCE ATTEMPTS TO BRING IN A WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHILE OTHER GUIDANCE RESTRICTS THIS MORE TO AN EVENING EVENT. WILL OPT TO GO WITH THE DRIER SOLUTION AT THIS POINT GIVEN LOW CONFIDENCE IN CONVECTION DEVELOPING BEHIND THE BOUNDARY...BUT THIS WILL HAVE TO BE FURTHER EVALUATED IN SUBSEQUENT FORECASTS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 305 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009/ SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THE PATTERN ALOFT FEATURED AN UPPER RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING FROM TEXAS TO THE GREAT LAKES REGION...WITH TROUGHINESS OVER THE ROCKIES WHICH RESULTED IN SOUTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. IN THE SOUTHWEST FLOW PATTERN ACROSS OUR REGION...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY INDICATED A SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE TAP WITH EMBEDDED SHORTWAVE TROUGHS TRANSLATING NORTHEAST THROUGH THE FLOW. AT THE SURFACE...A TROUGH WAS LOCATED FROM CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA THROUGH WESTERN NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. CONVERGENCE ALONG THE TROUGH COMBINED WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY LIFTING OUT OF COLORADO WILL GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO OUR WEST THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL IMPACT OUR WESTERN THEN NORTHWEST CWA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. INSTABILITY IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONT IS DECENT WITH MOST UNSTABLE CAPES AROUND 2500 J/KG BUT SHEAR IS WEAK. CURRENTLY HAVE SOME STRONG STORM WORDING IN THE HWO AND THIS LOOKS REASONABLE FOR A FEW HOURS. ON TUESDAY THE FRONT MAKES A BETTER PUSH SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUR CWA AND IS PROGGED TO BISECT THE CWA BY AROUND MIDDAY. SOME LINGERING POST FRONTAL PCPN MAY BE AROUND IN THE MORNING BUT COVERAGE SHOULD INCREASE/REDEVELOP IN THE VICINITY OF THE BOUNDARY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PCPN CHCS LOOK RATHER DECENT TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT AS ANOTHER WAVE CROSSES THE PLAINS AND LIFT IS ALSO ENHANCED IN INCREASING UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH A 50KT JET STREAK. INSTABILITY PROGS SHOW THE GREATEST MUCAPES ACROSS OUR SOUTHEAST CWA AHEAD OF THE FRONT AROUND 00Z WHEN VALUES AGAIN NEAR 3000 J/KG. SHEAR IS ALSO BETTER ON TUESDAY ALONG THE BOUNDARY. OVERALL STRONG STORM WORDING SHOULD SUFFICE NOW FOR STORMS BUT MAY NEED TO MONITOR FOR MARGINAL SEVERE AS WELL. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES FROM TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT ARE RIGHT AROUND TWO INCHES AND SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ON WEDNESDAY WILL BE TRICKY WITH A WIDE RANGE IN READINGS EXPECTED AHEAD/BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. SUNSHINE AND WARM AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALLOW READINGS TO CLIMB NEAR 90F...BUT BEHIND THE FRONT...COOL AIR...LOW CLOUDS AND INTERMITTENT PCPN WILL LEAD TO COOLER HIGHS IN THE 70S BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. LOW TEMPS WILL AVERAGE IN THE 60S TONIGHT...WITH 50S/60S FORECAST TUESDAY NIGHT. LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PRIMARY FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE IN NAILING DOWN FRONTAL POSITION...WHICH WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION CHANCES. THE 12Z NAM AND 12Z GFS ARE BOTH A BIT FASTER WITH THE COLD FRONT PROGRESSION ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS...WHILE THE 12Z ECMWF IS SLOWER AND MORE OF AN OUTLIER. WILL TREND FORECAST TOWARDS THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN...WHICH HAS THE FRONT THROUGH OUR CWA BY THE START OF THE PERIOD WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE CHANCE FOR ELEVATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY WILL BE GREATEST ACROSS SOUTHERN ZONES WHERE WE ARE IN CLOSER PROXIMITY TO THE COLD FRONT. THERE WILL STILL BE A WEAK UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE IN THE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY...WHICH WILL ALSO HELP TO ENHANCE PRECIPITATION CHANCES. WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON HOW THINGS DEVELOP THE NEXT FEW DAYS...AS THE SLOWER PROGRESSING ECMWF WOULD BE WETTER FOR MUCH OF OUR CWA...AND THE FASTER GFS WOULD BE A LITTLE DRIER. DRY WEATHER SHOULD ONCE AGAIN BE THE RULE BY THURSDAY ACROSS MOST NEBRASKA ZONES...AND FRIDAY FOR KANSAS ZONES WHERE PRECIP COULD LINGER LONGER. THE INITIAL FRONT AND SHORT WAVE SHOULD CLEARLY BE OUT OF THE ENTIRE AREA BY FRIDAY. HOWEVER... A SECONDARY COLD FRONT AND SHORT WAVE WILL BY RACING SOUTH OUT OF CANADA ON SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY REINFORCING THE COOL AIR. THIS APPEARS TO BE A DRIER AIR MASS AND WILL CONTINUE TO CALL FOR DRY WEATHER NEXT WEEKEND. MAY NEED TO FURTHER LOWER TEMPERATURES FOR NEXT WEEKEND DEPENDING ON FUTURE FORECAST MODEL TRENDS AND THE DEGREE OF THEIR HANDLE ON THE SCOPE OF THIS COLD AIR. TEMPERATURES WILL BE RELATIVELY COOL THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH HIGHS ONLY IN THE MID 70S TO AROUND 80. && .GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 343 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 251200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE- SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK- GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 343 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. THE RISK FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GENEVA NEBRASKA...TO PLAINVILLE KANSAS. A COUPLE OF STORMS MAY BE ON THE STRONG SIDE...AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL WORK SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...AND AGAIN THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT FOR AREAS SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 6. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
852 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009
NEZ039-040-250230-
GREELEY-VALLEY-
852 PM CDT MON AUG 24 2009
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
NORTHWESTERN GREELEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
NORTHERN VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ORD.
AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ORD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
FORT HARTSUFF STATE PARK BY 900 PM CDT
PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IN THE EVENT THESE STORMS INTENSIFY AND
BECOME SEVERE...OR A WARNING IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4173 9837 4144 9921 4164 9922 4174 9899
4174 9855
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 235DEG 17KT 4162 9898
AWJThe North Platte radar (KLNX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:12 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported, was accompanied by wind gusts of 60 mph.
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