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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

August 9, 20144 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 1:29 AM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: Aug 9, 2014, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Adams County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 Aug 9, 1:16 AM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 1:16 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 9:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
933 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
100245-
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-
933 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE PRIOR TO 1 AM WITH THE PRIMARY
THREATS BEING WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. THE
BETTER THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACROSS SOUTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH DECREASING CHANCES OF SEVERE STORMS AS YOU
HEAD SOUTH INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

SEVERAL CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FROM
SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...AND THEN AGAIN WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY.
ALTHOUGH THE CURRENT WEATHER PATTERN PROMOTES CONSIDERABLE
UNCERTAINTY IN PRECIPITATION FORECASTS BEYOND 12 TO 24 HOURS IN
ADVANCE...IT CURRENTLY APPEARS THE SATURDAY EVENING INTO SUNDAY
MORNING TIME FRAME FEATURES THE HIGHEST THUNDERSTORM CHANCES AND
POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS WEEKEND...AT LEAST A
FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED
OUT...ESPECIALLY ON SATURDAY EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS PORTIONS
OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

&&

MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
   HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HASTINGS  (ALL LOWERCASE)

WESELY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 12:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1207 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014

NEZ060-090545-
DAWSON NE-
1207 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY UNTIL
1245 AM CDT...

AT 1207 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES SOUTHWEST OF SUMNER...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THIS
STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SUMNER.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT
SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4098 9975 4094 9943 4088 9942 4076 9949
      4079 9972
TIME...MOT...LOC 0507Z 187DEG 1KT 4085 9960

HEINLEIN

Local storm report, Aug 9, 12:18 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1218 AM CDT SAT AUG 09 2014

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

1210 AM     TSTM WND GST     1 E OXFORD              40.25N 99.61W
08/09/2014  E60 MPH          HARLAN             NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

            ESTIMATED 60 MPH ON EAST SIDE OF OXFORD

&&

PFANNKUCH

Local storm report, Aug 9, 12:23 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1223 AM CDT SAT AUG 09 2014

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

1220 AM     HEAVY RAIN       KEARNEY                 40.70N 99.08W
08/09/2014  E3.50 INCH       BUFFALO            NE   PUBLIC

            PUBLIC REPORT FROM PERSONAL RAIN GAUGE OF 3.5 INCHES OF
            RAIN. PUBLIC ALSO REPORTED STEET FLOODING AROUND THE
            VIADUCT.

&&

PBEDA

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 12:44 AM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 12:59 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 1:29 AM CDT, 0 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
Aug 8, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Sherman	38 min
Aug 8, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	46 min
Aug 8, 10:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	44 min
Aug 8, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	52 min
Aug 8, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	41 min
Aug 8, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	42 min
Aug 8, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney	38 min
Aug 8, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	24 min
Aug 8, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Kearney	46 min
Aug 8, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper, Phelps	42 min
Aug 8, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	49 min
Aug 9, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	40 min
Aug 9, 12:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	38 min
Aug 9, 12:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Buffalo	3 hr
Aug 9, 12:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Buffalo	4 hr
Aug 9, 12:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	46 min
Aug 9, 12:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	46 min
Aug 9, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	25 min
Aug 9, 3:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Phelps	49 min
Aug 9, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	29 min
Aug 9, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	40 min
Aug 9, 8:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	20 min
Aug 9, 8:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	14 min
Aug 9, 8:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	12 min
Aug 9, 9:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	31 min
Aug 9, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nance	25 min
Aug 9, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	20 min
Aug 9, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	14 min
Aug 9, 11:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	14 min
Aug 9, 11:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	16 min
Aug 9, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	45 min
Aug 9, 12:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	36 min
Aug 9, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	40 min
Aug 9, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	32 min
Aug 9, 2:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	45 min
Aug 9, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	27 min
Aug 9, 2:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Greeley	3 hr
Aug 9, 6:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	49 min
Aug 9, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	29 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.