Alert archive / Nebraska / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind advisory at Mar 11, 2011, 12:22 PM CST for 12 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 11, 2011, 1:00 PM CST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2011, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2011, 1:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2011, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
436 WWUS73 KGID 111822 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1222 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...STRONG WINDS THIS AFTERNOON... NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-112300- /O.NEW.KGID.WI.Y.0004.110311T1900Z-110311T2300Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO- HALL-HAMILTON-YORK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ORD...FULLERTON...LOUP CITY... ST. PAUL...CENTRAL CITY...OSCEOLA...LEXINGTON...KEARNEY... GRAND ISLAND...AURORA...YORK 1222 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. * STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL WHIP ACROSS AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL DROP OFF BY EARLY THIS EVENING. * SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS NEAR 30 MPH WILL GUST TO AROUND 45 MPH. GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS THE STRONGEST WINDS INITIALLY SET IN...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF STATE HIGHWAY 92. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
780 WWUS73 KGID 112256 NPWGID URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 456 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-120000- /O.EXP.KGID.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-110311T2300Z/ VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE-SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO- HALL-HAMILTON-YORK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ORD...FULLERTON...LOUP CITY... ST. PAUL...CENTRAL CITY...OSCEOLA...LEXINGTON...KEARNEY... GRAND ISLAND...AURORA...YORK 456 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING. $$ HEINLEIN
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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.