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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

May 29, 2016Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: May 29, 2016, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Dawson County, NE

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 7:03 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
703 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

NEZ060-300030-
DAWSON NE-
703 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY UNTIL
730 PM CDT...

AT 703 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
GOTHENBURG...OR 24 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COZAD AND GOTHENBURG.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 209 AND 224.

LAT...LON 4105 10022 4105 10003 4091 9981 4072 10018
      4076 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 227DEG 20KT 4084 10020

WESELY

Local storm report, May 29, 7:11 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 7:11 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 7:31 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 7:39 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
739 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

NEZ060-300100-
DAWSON NE-
739 PM CDT SUN MAY 29 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY UNTIL
800 PM CDT...

AT 739 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES NORTHEAST OF GOTHENBURG...OR 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GOTHENBURG.

LAT...LON 4105 10022 4105 9981 4087 9997 4094 10022
TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 216DEG 17KT 4103 10006

WESELY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	27 min
May 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	47 min
May 29, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, York	44 min
May 29, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	31 min
May 29, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	41 min
May 29, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Polk	24 min
May 29, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton	48 hr
May 29, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay	43 min
May 29, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	49 min
May 29, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	44 min
May 29, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nuckolls	32 min
May 29, 10:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls	12 hr
May 29, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Thayer	40 min
May 29, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	52 min
May 29, 7:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	34 min
May 29, 7:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	48 min
May 29, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	41 min
May 29, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	25 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.