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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2011, 10:21 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 19, 2011, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2011, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS83 KGID 200321
SPSGID
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1021 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011
KSZ007-NEZ085>087-200400-
JEWELL KS-NUCKOLLS NE-THAYER NE-WEBSTER NE-
1021 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN WEBSTER...THAYER...
NUCKOLLS AND NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT...
AT 1014 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED ROUGHLY 10 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES EAST OF ALEXANDRIA TO RUSKIN TO
GUIDE ROCK...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH
ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAIN OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN ONE
HOUR IS ALSO LIKELY IN SOME AREAS...ALONG WITH FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
BOSTWICK...
RUSKIN...
SUPERIOR...
WEBBER...
HARDY...
HEBRON...
DESHLER...
GILEAD...
BYRON...
CHESTER...
HUBBELL...
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.
LAT...LON 4000 9792 3992 9793 3987 9848 4031 9856
4034 9788 4034 9736 4000 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0320Z 267DEG 34KT 4025 9722 4020 9774
4008 9829
$$
PFANNKUCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Harlan | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Webster | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 8:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 43 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.