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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2014, 2:08 AM CDT for Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 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 8, 2014, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2014, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
County Hamilton County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 4332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
266 WWUS83 KGID 080708 SPSGID SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 208 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014 NEZ048-049-063-064-080730- YORK NE-HAMILTON NE-POLK NE-MERRICK NE- 208 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL MERRICK...SOUTHWESTERN POLK...CENTRAL HAMILTON AND NORTHWESTERN YORK COUNTIES UNTIL 230 AM CDT... AT 208 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARQUETTE...OR 16 MILES EAST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AURORA...CENTRAL CITY...MARQUETTE AND HORDVILLE. 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 4082 9807 4097 9820 4122 9797 4104 9780 TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 225DEG 46KT 4097 9805 $$ FAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 28 min |
| May 7, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 27 min |
| May 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 36 min |
| May 7, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 35 min |
| May 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman | 28 min |
| May 7, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard, Sherman | 42 min |
| May 7, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 39 min |
| May 7, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 27 min |
| May 7, 10:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 31 min |
| May 8, 1:21 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Merrick | 9 min |
| May 8, 1:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 21 min |
| May 8, 1:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hamilton | 8 min |
| May 8, 2:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 14 min |
| May 7, 8:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 26 min |
| May 7, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 36 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.