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Heat Advisory 9, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this heat advisory at Aug 2, 2011, 3:52 AM CDT for Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Nebraska; Jewell County, Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It took effect at Aug 2, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2011, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 2, 2011, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2011, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4836 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.