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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

August 4, 2015Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 6:40 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. 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: Aug 4, 2015, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 517 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 4, 6:32 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:32 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 1:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
114 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 2015

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-
051815-
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-
114 PM CDT TUE AUG 4 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK
AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE BEFORE
MIDNIGHT...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BROKEN BOW TO KEARNEY TO
HEBRON NEBRASKA. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. IN ADDITION...
SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY
EXCEEDING 3 INCHES IN A FEW SPOTS...AND THIS COULD LEAD TO FLASH
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

PERIODIC THUNDERSTORM CHANCES REMAIN IN THE FORECAST WEDNESDAY
THROUGH MONDAY. AT THIS TIME TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY EXISTS IN THE
FORECAST TO PIN DOWN SPECIFICS IN REGARD TO ANY SEVERE WEATHER
CHANCES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

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

HALBLAUB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:44 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:20 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 4, 6:33 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 6:40 PM 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 4, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson, Gosper	14 min
Aug 4, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper	50 min
Aug 4, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	52 min
Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	33 min
Aug 4, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	30 min
Aug 4, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	39 min
Aug 4, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan	31 min
Aug 4, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	34 min
Aug 4, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	30 min
Aug 4, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Clay, Hamilton	28 min
Aug 4, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin	23 min
Aug 4, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, York	48 min
Aug 4, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	34 min
Aug 4, 2:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Phillips	3 hr
Aug 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	30 min
Aug 4, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	25 min
Aug 4, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	27 min
Aug 4, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Phillips	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell, Smith	31 min
Aug 4, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	10 min
Aug 4, 6:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Mitchell	5 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.