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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT for Greeley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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
- May 4, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
County Greeley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 2705 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 4, 3:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 4, 3:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 3:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 334 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 051200- PHILLIPS-SMITH-JEWELL-ROOKS-OSBORNE-MITCHELL-VALLEY-GREELEY-NANCE- SHERMAN-HOWARD-MERRICK-POLK-DAWSON-BUFFALO-HALL-HAMILTON-YORK- GOSPER-PHELPS-KEARNEY-ADAMS-CLAY-FILLMORE-FURNAS-HARLAN-FRANKLIN- WEBSTER-NUCKOLLS-THAYER- 334 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...PRIMARILY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ELWOOD TO HEBRON. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP...THOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT...WARM TEMPERATURES...MOIST AIR AND LIGHT WINDS WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR FOG DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. VISIBILITIES DROPPING DOWN TO A HALF OF A MILE OR LESS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SATURDAY MORNING WILL SEE THE CONTINUED POTENTIAL FOR FOG ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...WITH VISIBILITIES LESS THAN A HALF A MILE POSSIBLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN STARTING LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUING SATURDAY EVENING AND NIGHT ALONG AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH. A FEW NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ELWOOD TO HEBRON. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS (ALL LOWERCASE) ADO/BRYANT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 4, 5:45 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 545 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 NEZ040-042315- GREELEY NE- 545 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN GREELEY COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM CDT... AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF CEDAR RAPIDS...OR 33 MILES EAST OF ORD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN GREELY COUNTY. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS... FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4149 9829 4157 9848 4174 9849 4175 9830 TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 249DEG 16KT 4158 9828 GUERRERO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 39 min |
| May 3, 7:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Howard | 43 min |
| May 3, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 39 min |
| May 3, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Howard | 49 min |
| May 3, 8:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nance | 52 min |
| May 4, 2:40 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Valley | 49 min |
| May 4, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 37 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.