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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Hastings, NE

April 6, 200624 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this high wind watch at Apr 6, 2006, 6:15 AM CDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 7, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2006, 6:15 AM CDT (11:15 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 7, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 6, 2006, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

All 30 counties

Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, 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 this high wind watch went out at Apr 6, 6:15 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 6:15 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 11:30 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more	32 hr
Apr 6, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	42 min
Apr 6, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	64 min
Apr 6, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	36 min
Apr 6, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	32 min
Apr 6, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	54 min
Apr 6, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	38 min
Apr 6, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	14 min
Apr 6, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	33 min
Apr 6, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	24 min
Apr 6, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick	21 min
Apr 6, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	16 min
Apr 6, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	42 min
Apr 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	38 min
Apr 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	30 min
Apr 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	32 min

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Nebraska, 2006 High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2006 Every high wind watch in 2006

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.