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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2015, 1:07 AM CDT for Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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 8, 2015, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2015, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
879 WWUS83 KGID 080607 SPSGID SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 107 AM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015 KSZ006-018-080630- OSBORNE KS-SMITH KS- 107 AM CDT SAT AUG 8 2015 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR OSBORNE AND SMITH COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM CDT... AT 107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF HARLAN COUNTY DAM TO NEAR STOCKTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SMITH CENTER...OSBORNE...DOWNS...KENSINGTON...NATOMA...LEBANON... GAYLORD...PORTIS...ALTON...ATHOL...HARLAN...CEDAR AND BELLAIRE. THESE STORMS 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 200 AM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 4000 9907 4000 9851 3913 9849 3913 9904 TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 267DEG 38KT 3995 9923 3948 9921 $$ HALBLAUB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 10:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin, Kearney, Phelps | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 11:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Buffalo | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Adams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 14 min |
| Aug 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney | 9 min |
| Aug 8, 12:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 1:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 1:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Rooks | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 11:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne, Smith | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 11:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Smith | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 2:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 43 min |
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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.