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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

June 28, 2016Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2016, 8:39 AM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 21 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: Jun 28, 2016, 8:39 AM CDT (13:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2016, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 1570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 28, 6:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:46 AM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
346 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

KSZ006-007-NEZ085-280930-
JEWELL KS-SMITH KS-WEBSTER NE-
346 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL JEWELL...EASTERN
SMITH AND SOUTHWESTERN WEBSTER COUNTIES UNTIL 430 AM CDT...

AT 346 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTH OF INAVALE...OR 38 MILES NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEBANON...ESBON AND BELLAIRE.

LAT...LON 4000 9880 4000 9873 4005 9873 4009 9860
      3969 9831 3958 9864
TIME...MOT...LOC 0846Z 337DEG 23KT 4000 9867

HEINLEIN

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 4:57 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
457 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

KSZ006-018-281030-
OSBORNE KS-SMITH KS-
457 AM CDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN OSBORNE AND
SOUTHEASTERN SMITH COUNTIES UNTIL 530 AM CDT...

AT 457 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
BELLAIRE...OR 34 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS POSSIBLY IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SMITH CENTER...DOWNS...LEBANON...PORTIS...HARLAN AND BELLAIRE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3982 9877 3981 9855 3949 9850 3950 9884
TIME...MOT...LOC 0957Z 358DEG 19KT 3974 9867

PFANNKUCH

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:45 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 8:03 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 8:39 AM CDT, 0 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 28, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	41 min
Jun 28, 1:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	47 min
Jun 28, 2:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	44 min
Jun 28, 3:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	39 min
Jun 28, 3:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	44 min
Jun 28, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	33 min
Jun 28, 5:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	14 min
Jun 28, 7:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	16 min
Jun 28, 7:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	15 min
Jun 28, 8:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	27 min
Jun 28, 8:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	13 min
Jun 28, 9:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	17 min
Jun 28, 9:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	16 min
Jun 28, 9:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	26 min
Jun 28, 11:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	15 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.