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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

June 28, 2012Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2012, 11:51 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 28, 2012, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2012, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Dawson County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 1037 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

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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 Jun 28, 10:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 10:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:51 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1151 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2012

NEZ060-290515-
DAWSON NE-
1151 PM CDT THU JUN 28 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY UNTIL 1215
AM CDT...

AT 1146 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WILLOW ISLAND...OR 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 209 AND 228.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

LAT...LON 4105 10022 4106 9990 4103 9977 4073 9994
      4073 10023 4100 10023
TIME...MOT...LOC 0450Z 216DEG 27KT 4094 10004

BRYANT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 4:21 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	15 hr

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.