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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

February 28, 2012Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Feb 28, 2012, 4:49 PM CST for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: Feb 28, 2012, 4:49 PM CST (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 2012, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Jewell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 237 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1369 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 396 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 3:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	33 min
Feb 28, 3:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan, Phelps	34 min
Feb 28, 4:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	34 min
Feb 28, 4:36 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	24 min
Feb 28, 4:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	32 min
Feb 28, 5:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	11 min
Feb 28, 5:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	14 min
Feb 28, 3:58 AM CST	Wind Advisory	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	14 hr
Feb 28, 4:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	51 min
Feb 28, 5:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	48 min
Feb 28, 5:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	42 min
Feb 28, 5:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne, Smith	40 min
Feb 28, 5:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	26 min

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.