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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Hastings, NE

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

NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind advisory at Apr 6, 2006, 11:30 AM CDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 7, 2006, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 6, 2006, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 7, 2006, 6:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 7, 2006, 7:11 PM CDT
In force: 13 hr
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 16:31 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -299 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 6, 6:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 6:15 AM CDT, 5 hours 15 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, 6:15 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more	5 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

Wind Advisories in Nebraska, 2006 Wind Advisories in Kansas, 2006 Every wind advisory 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.