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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this excessive heat warning at Jun 27, 2012, 3:37 PM CDT for Franklin County, Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 51 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2012, 3:37 PM CDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2012, 6:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 4065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Jun 27, 12:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 12:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 3:54 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan and 5 more | 17 hr |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2012Excessive Heat Warnings in Nebraska, 2012Every excessive heat warning in 2012
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.