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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Hastings, NE

May 15, 200919 counties in Nebraska; Phillips County, Rooks County, Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind advisory at May 15, 2009, 3:02 PM CDT for 19 counties in Nebraska; Phillips County, Rooks County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2009, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2009, 8:23 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

All 22 counties

Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson 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, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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 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 May 15, 2:57 PM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:57 PM CDT, 5 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
May 15, 6:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	31 min
May 15, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	39 min
May 15, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	49 min
May 15, 7:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Kearney	48 min
May 15, 7:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Kearney	48 min
May 15, 7:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	37 min
May 15, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	14 min
May 15, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	46 min
May 15, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay	27 min
May 15, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore	27 min
May 15, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	29 min
May 15, 6:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	33 min

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Nebraska, 2009 Wind Advisories in Kansas, 2009 Every wind advisory in 2009

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.