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Wind Advisory 22, NWS Hastings, NE

October 26, 201024 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind advisory at Oct 26, 2010, 3:38 AM CDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 27, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2010, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2010, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 27, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
All 30 counties

Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks 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), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 2010-10-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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 2010-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -108 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 3:50 AM CDTRed Flag WarningGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith15 hr
Oct 26, 2:48 PM CDTFire Weather WatchGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith13 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Nebraska, 2010Wind Advisories in Kansas, 2010Every wind advisory in 2010

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.