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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

August 8, 2015Osborne County, Smith County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1367 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2015-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 9:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFurnas, Harlan52 min
Aug 7, 9:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson28 min
Aug 7, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps49 min
Aug 7, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Phelps33 min
Aug 7, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan44 min
Aug 7, 10:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin42 min
Aug 7, 10:48 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDDawson4 hr
Aug 7, 10:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin, Kearney, Phelps25 min
Aug 7, 11:11 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDBuffalo3 hr
Aug 7, 11:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDAdams, Clay, Franklin, Kearney, Nuckolls, Webster41 min
Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams14 min
Aug 7, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney9 min
Aug 8, 12:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDClay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer43 min
Aug 8, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer42 min
Aug 8, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson41 min
Aug 8, 1:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo, Dawson41 min
Aug 8, 1:20 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGIDBuffalo, Dawson7 hr
Aug 7, 10:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks28 min
Aug 7, 11:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne, Smith39 min
Aug 7, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith29 min
Aug 7, 11:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell52 min
Aug 8, 12:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks53 min
Aug 8, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Phillips, Smith46 min
Aug 8, 2:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell, Mitchell41 min
Aug 8, 3:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDJewell27 min
Aug 8, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell35 min
Aug 8, 4:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDMitchell43 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.