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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Hastings, NE

May 1, 201112 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this frost advisory at May 1, 2011, 2:31 PM CDT for 12 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at May 2, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2011, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
In effect from
May 2, 2011, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 2, 2011, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2011-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2011-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -319 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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 frost 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 frost advisory went out at May 1, 12:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 12:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 2:31 PM CDTFreeze WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard and 6 more17 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in Nebraska, 2011Frost Advisories in Kansas, 2011Every frost advisory 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.