HALL

829987 · 40.930, -98.390

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Event typeevent_type	Lightning
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id	829,987
Episode IDepisode_id	137,687
Begin UTCbegin_utc	2019-06-09T03:18:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc	2019-06-09T03:18:00+00:00
Statestate	NEBRASKA
County/zone typecz_type	C
County/zone namecz_name	HALL
Latitudelat	40.930
Longitudelon	-98.390
End latitudeend_lat	40.930
End longitudeend_lon	-98.390
Deaths directdeaths_direct	0
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect	0
Injuries directinjuries_direct	0
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect	0
Damage propertydamage_property	5.00K
Damage cropsdamage_crops	0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_source	Newspaper
Episode narrativeepisode_narrative	Numerous thunderstorms rumbled across much of South Central Nebraska on the evening of Saturday the 8th into the early morning of Sunday the 9th. While most of this activity was sub-severe, producing only small hail and/or wind gusts up to around 50 MPH, a notable exception occurred in several southwestern counties where a briefly-supercellular storm produced a flurry of severe-criteria wind gusts primarily between 8-9 p.m. CDT. These severe winds of mainly 60-70 MPH concentrated within northern Furnas, southern Gosper, northwestern Harlan and southern Phelps counties, including an intense (albeit unofficial) gust of 86 MPH clocked by a personal weather station north-northwest of Oxford. While ground-truth damage reports were limited, they included: 1) a power pole blown onto Highway 6/34 in Arapahoe along with several large tree limbs down around town...2) various reports of mainly minor damage in/near Holdrege, including: damaged power poles, a large tree down at the cemetery, and part of an irrigation pivot blown onto a rural road a few miles west of town. As this storm of the day progressed into eastern Phelps County it weakened while transitioning to more of a multicell cluster mode. However, storm intensity occasionally flared up farther east, as evidenced by estimated 55-60 MPH winds in southeast Adams County. Lightning also made the news during the evening, as a bolt from a non-severe storm in Grand Island blew out a roughly 5-by-5 foot section from the roof of a retail store, sparking a small fire. Somewhat surprisingly, there was no verified severe-criteria hail during this event, with the largest reported stones only nickel size.\|\|Timing-wise, the first severe storms of the day in close proximity to (but slightly west of) South Central Nebraska erupted along a well-defined cold front in west-central Nebraska during the mid-afternoon. A few hours later, the first strong storm to affect the local area entered western Dawson County between 6-7 p.m. CDT, followed a bit later by the main, outflow-dominant severe cell that rapidly intensified over Gosper/northern Furnas counties. As the night wore on a few larger-scale, predominantly sub-severe storm complexes traversed much of the 30-county area, with most places eventually rain-free by 4-5 a.m. CDT on the 9th. Meteorologically, this was a fairly strongly-forced event. In the mid-upper levels, west-southwesterly flow was present, slightly downstream from a seasonably-strong, large-scale trough traversing the Northern Rockies. At the surface, the aforementioned, northeast-southwest oriented cold front gradually made its way through South Central Nebraska during the evening and overnight hours. Ahead of this boundary, the mesoscale environment was clearly supportive of severe storms, with early-evening parameters featuring around 2000 J/kg mixed-layer CAPE and 30-40 knots of deep-layer wind shear. As a testament to the strength of the passing cold front, high temperatures across most of South Central Nebraska dropped from the mid-80s F on the 8th to only the upper-60s on the 9th.
Event narrativeevent_narrative	Lightning strike ocurred to a retail store off West 13th Street (HomeGoods Store). A small fire occurred and a 5-by-5 foot section of roof was damaged, allowing water to get inside.
Yearyear	2,019

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