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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Hastings, NE

January 6, 200724 counties in Nebraska; Jewell County, Phillips County, Smith County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-01-06Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2007-01-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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 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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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.