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Snow Advisory 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this snow advisory at Apr 10, 2008, 2:34 PM CDT for 12 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Apr 10, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2008, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2008, 9:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Apr 10, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 12:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 10:38 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1038 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 NEZ040-041-046>048-061-062-072>074-082-083-111200- GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-BUFFALO-HALL-GOSPER-PHELPS- KEARNEY-FURNAS-HARLAN- 1038 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT INTO FRIDAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAIN AND SNOWFALL AMOUNTS. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ049-063-064-075>077-084>087-111200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-POLK-HAMILTON-YORK- ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FRANKLIN-WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 1038 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...SOUTH OF A LINE FROM POLK TO FRANKLIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...WITH THE HIGHEST TOTALS EXPECTED IN NEBRASKA. NORTH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH COMBINED WITH THE SNOW WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED TO COME TO AN END FRIDAY NIGHT. ANY ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS WOULD BE LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN INCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAIN AND SNOW AMOUNTS. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) NEZ039-060-111200- VALLEY-DAWSON- 1038 AM CDT THU APR 10 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DAWSON AND VALLEY COUNTIES .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT INTO FRIDAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOW AMOUNTS. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 3:44 AM CDT | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Greeley, Hall and 8 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 10, 10:38 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | GID | Dawson, Valley | 11 hr |
Nearby
Snow Advisories in Nebraska, 2008Every snow advisory in 2008
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.