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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

October 15, 201310 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2013, 11:23 AM CDT for 10 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Oct 16, 2013, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 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: Oct 15, 2013, 11:23 AM CDT (16:23 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 16, 2013, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired: Oct 16, 2013, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 290 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: 1156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 15, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 15, 3:01 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Greeley, Howard, Sherman and 1 more	13 hr
Oct 15, 11:23 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Hall, Hamilton, Merrick and 6 more	22 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Nebraska, 2013 Freeze Warnings in Kansas, 2013 Every freeze warning in 2013

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.