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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

July 14, 201124 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 14, 2011, 3:18 PM CDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 15, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 6 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 2011, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 15, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 21, 2011, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 days
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 20:21 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 306 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: 1099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jul 14, 12:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 9:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 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
Jul 13, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	27 min
Jul 13, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	35 min
Jul 13, 7:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Merrick	34 min
Jul 13, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	48 min
Jul 13, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	37 min
Jul 13, 8:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	26 min
Jul 13, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	31 min
Jul 13, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	37 min
Jul 13, 8:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney	25 min
Jul 13, 9:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	22 min
Jul 13, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	30 min
Jul 13, 10:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	43 min
Jul 13, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	37 min
Jul 13, 10:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	45 min
Jul 13, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	41 min
Jul 13, 11:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Franklin, Webster	10 hr
Jul 14, 4:38 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton and 8 more	11 hr
Jul 14, 8:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Franklin	6 hr
Jul 14, 3:18 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more	24 hr
Jul 13, 7:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	46 min
Jul 13, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	32 min
Jul 13, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	46 min
Jul 13, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	43 min
Jul 13, 9:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	47 min
Jul 13, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	44 min
Jul 14, 12:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Rooks	10 hr

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Nebraska, 2011 Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2011 Every excessive heat warning in 2011

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.