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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

October 22, 20087 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this winter storm warning at Oct 22, 2008, 4:22 AM CDT for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 22, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 22, 2008, 4:22 AM CDT (09:22 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 22, 2008, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 23, 2008, 5:34 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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 winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Oct 21, 3:43 PM CDT, 12 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 21, 3:43 PM CDT, 12 hours 39 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
Oct 22, 4:22 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	GID	Greeley, Harlan, Howard, Kearney	25 hr
Oct 22, 8:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Nuckolls	4 hr
Oct 22, 9:05 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls	20 hr
Oct 22, 9:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	19 hr
Oct 22, 10:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Clay	19 hr
Oct 22, 1:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Phillips, Smith	4 hr
Oct 22, 7:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Rooks	9 hr
Oct 22, 7:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Phillips	9 hr
Oct 22, 8:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	3 days
Oct 22, 8:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Smith	20 hr
Oct 22, 2:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell	6 hr
Oct 22, 5:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	46 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Nebraska, 2008 Every winter storm warning 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.