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Wind Advisory 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind advisory at Feb 13, 2011, 2:26 PM CST for 7 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2011, 2:26 PM CST (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2011, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Howard County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
635 WWUS73 KGID 132026 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 226 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2011 NEZ039-040-046-047-060>062-140200- /O.NEW.KGID.WI.Y.0002.110213T2026Z-110214T0200Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-SHERMAN-HOWARD-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ORD...LOUP CITY...ST. PAUL... LEXINGTON...KEARNEY...GRAND ISLAND 226 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING. * STRONG WESTERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ADVISED AREA THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. * WEST WINDS WILL AVERAGE 30 TO 40 MPH...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH. THESE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY BEGIN TO SUBSIDE AFTER DARK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS BETWEEN 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS BETWEEN 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED SO THEY ARE NOT BLOWN OVER BY THESE STRONG WINDS. && $$ SR/CF
1 follow-up statement
810 WWUS73 KGID 140134 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 734 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2011 NEZ039-040-046-047-060>062-140245- /O.EXP.KGID.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-110214T0200Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-SHERMAN-HOWARD-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ORD...LOUP CITY...ST. PAUL... LEXINGTON...KEARNEY...GRAND ISLAND 734 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CST THIS EVENING. * WIND SPEEDS HAVE EASED BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS...AND ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH EVEN FURTHER THROUGH THE EVENING. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM. $$
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.