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Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

July 19, 201624 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this excessive heat warning at Jul 19, 2016, 3:43 PM CDT for 24 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jul 20, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2016, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 20, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 23, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
3 days
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
All 30 counties

Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2016-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1546 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2016-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
1546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 11:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDDawson, Gosper46 min
Jul 19, 12:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps64 min
Jul 19, 1:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDBuffalo, Furnas, Gosper, Greeley, Kearney, Phelps and 2 more48 min
Jul 19, 1:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDAdams, Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Webster42 min
Jul 19, 3:48 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryGIDAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more32 hr

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in Nebraska, 2016Excessive Heat Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every excessive heat warning in 2016

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.