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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

June 20, 2014Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2014, 7:10 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 20, 2014, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Dawson County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 2673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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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 20, 4:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 4:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 3:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:45 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:50 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:00 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
700 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     HAIL             GRAND ISLAND            40.92N 98.37W
06/20/2014  E1.75 INCH       HALL               NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

GUERRERO

Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:05 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
705 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0701 PM     HAIL             GRAND ISLAND            40.92N 98.37W
06/20/2014  E2.50 INCH       HALL               NE   BROADCAST MEDIA

            NEAR DOWNTOWN GRAND ISLAND

&&

GUERRERO

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:07 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
707 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NEZ039-046-210030-
VALLEY NE-SHERMAN NE-
707 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN VALLEY AND NORTHWESTERN
SHERMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT...

AT 707 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ARCADIA...OR 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHERN VALLEY AND
NORTHWESTERN SHERMAN COUNTIES.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4165 9895 4141 9877 4125 9911 4133 9921
      4146 9921
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 228DEG 20KT 4138 9910

PFANNKUCH

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:10 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
710 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2014

NEZ060-210045-
DAWSON NE-
710 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DAWSON
COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM CDT...

AT 709 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
MAINLY CENTERED IN EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CUSTER COUNTY...OR 24 MILES
SOUTH OF ARNOLD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM IN EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY NORTH OF GOTHENBURG

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN DAWSON
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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4105 10022 4104 9985 4103 9993 4101 10003
      4101 10005 4098 10020 4099 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0009Z 248DEG 21KT 4107 10018

PFANNKUCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	23 min
Jun 20, 7:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Hall	3 hr
Jun 20, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman	48 min
Jun 20, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	27 min
Jun 20, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	30 min
Jun 20, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Merrick	40 min
Jun 20, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	52 min
Jun 20, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	50 min
Jun 20, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Phelps	46 min
Jun 20, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick	45 min
Jun 20, 8:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Hall, Howard	3 hr
Jun 20, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Howard, Sherman	49 min
Jun 20, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	52 min
Jun 20, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard	52 min
Jun 20, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	27 min
Jun 20, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Hall, Kearney	42 min
Jun 20, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton, Kearney and 2 more	52 min
Jun 20, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls and 3 more	44 min
Jun 20, 11:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Howard	9 hr
Jun 21, 7:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Hall, Howard	6 hr
Jun 21, 8:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	6 hr

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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.