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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

May 24, 2010Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2010, 11:12 PM CDT for Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2010, 11:12 PM CDT (04:12 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2010, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

County Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 00:00Z on 2010-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2655 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2010-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 345 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
2655 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
345 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
5.0
Supercell composite
26.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

987 
WWUS83 KGID 250412
SPSGID

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1112 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

NEZ073-074-083-084-250445-
FRANKLIN NE-HARLAN NE-KEARNEY NE-PHELPS NE-
1112 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2010

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HARLAN...NORTHERN FRANKLIN...
SOUTHERN PHELPS AND SOUTHERN KEARNEY COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT...

AT 1107 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WILCOX TO ORLEANS...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  HILDRETH...
  MINDEN...
  NORMAN...
  UPLAND...

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 4035 9963 4055 9872 4033 9872 4004 9940
      4000 9962
TIME...MOT...LOC 0412Z 240DEG 41KT 4038 9905 4012 9936

$$
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson39 min
May 24, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDDawson21 min
May 24, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson61 min
May 24, 8:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas, Gosper39 min
May 24, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper46 min
May 24, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson43 min
May 24, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps42 min
May 24, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper17 min
May 24, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson36 min
May 24, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Phelps15 min
May 24, 9:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo, Greeley, Hall, Howard, Sherman27 min
May 24, 9:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDNuckolls, Webster38 min
May 24, 9:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDGreeley, Hall, Howard48 min
May 24, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Sherman, Valley21 min
May 24, 10:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDClay, Fillmore, Hamilton30 min
May 24, 10:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDThayer43 min
May 24, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall, Howard, Merrick33 min
May 24, 10:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDHarlan49 min
May 25, 12:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDClay24 min
May 24, 7:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks27 min
May 24, 8:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne31 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks30 min
May 24, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Smith25 min
May 24, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith45 min
May 24, 9:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell, Mitchell40 min
May 24, 10:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell42 min

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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.