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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this frost advisory at May 14, 2016, 3:31 PM CDT for 7 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at May 15, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2016, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Greeley County, NE, Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at May 13, 5:53 PM CDT, 21 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 5:53 PM CDT, 21 hours 38 minutes before
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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.