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Snow Advisory 3, NWS Omaha, NE

December 7, 200512 counties in Nebraska; 5 counties in Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this snow advisory at Dec 7, 2005, 3:50 AM CST for 12 counties in Nebraska; 5 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Dec 7, 2005, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 7, 2005, 3:50 AM CST (09:50 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 7, 2005, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Dec 8, 2005, 3:54 AM CST
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 383 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2005-12-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2005-12-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Dec 6, 2:30 PM CST, 13 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 2:30 PM CST, 13 hours 20 minutes before
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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.