Alert archive / Nebraska / High Wind Watches in 2007
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this high wind watch at Jan 6, 2007, 4:40 PM CST for 24 counties in Nebraska; Jewell County, Phillips County, Smith County, Kansas. It took effect at Jan 8, 2007, 8:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 2007, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 8, 2007, 8:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2007, 2:58 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
All 27 counties
Jewell County, KS, Phillips 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), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 6, 2:58 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 2:58 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 6, 2:36 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 236 PM CST SAT JAN 6 2007 KSZ005>007-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-071200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK- POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK-GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY- ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS- THAYER- 236 PM CST SAT JAN 6 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...NORTH OF HIGHWAY 24. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 35 MPH...ARE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY ACROSS THE AREA. EVEN STRONGER WINDS APPEAR LIKELY MONDAY AND A HIGH WIND WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE DAYTIME HOURS MONDAY. SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST PERIOD OF WINDS ON MONDAY WILL BE BETWEEN 8 AM AND 6 PM. SUCH STRONG WINDS WILL HAMPER EFFORTS TO RESTORE POWER TO THOSE AREAS STILL WITHOUT ELECTRICAL SERVICES. LATER IN THE WEEK...BEGINNING THURSDAY...A SHARP TURN TOWARD COLDER WEATHER WILL OVERTAKE THE PLAINS. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY WILL ONLY REACH THE 30S...WITH HIGHS ON FRIDAY ONLY IN THE 20S. THERE MAY STILL BE SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY RURAL AREAS...WITHOUT POWER WHEN THE COLD SPELL BEGINS. THOSE WHO ANTICIPATE UNRELIABLE OR NO ELECTRICAL SERVICE BY THE END OF THE WEEK...SHOULD PREPARE APPROPRIATELY FOR THE COLD WEATHER...AND BE READY FOR THE COLD TO LAST THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) KSZ017>019-071200- ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL- 236 PM CST SAT JAN 6 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 24. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 35 MPH...ARE EXPECTED ON SUNDAY ACROSS THE AREA. EVEN STRONGER WINDS APPEAR LIKELY MONDAY. SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST PERIOD OF WINDS ON MONDAY WILL BE BETWEEN 8 AM AND 6 PM. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Nebraska, 2007High Wind Watches in Kansas, 2007Every high wind watch in 2007
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.