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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Hastings, NE

June 17, 201618 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this heat advisory at Jun 17, 2016, 12:01 PM CDT for 18 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2016, 12:01 PM CDT (17:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

All 24 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, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin 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, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 2424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 17, 5:40 AM CDT, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 5:40 AM CDT, 6 hours 21 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
Jun 17, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	50 min
Jun 17, 5:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Sherman	4 hr
Jun 17, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	41 min
Jun 17, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Sherman	33 min
Jun 17, 6:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Sherman	3 hr
Jun 17, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	30 min
Jun 17, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	33 min
Jun 17, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	35 min
Jun 17, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	50 min
Jun 17, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	35 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	39 min
Jun 17, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	48 min
Jun 17, 6:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Phillips	3 hr
Jun 17, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phillips	47 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Nebraska, 2016 Heat Advisories in Kansas, 2016 Every heat advisory 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.