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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Hastings, NE

January 16, 20165 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 16, 2016, 5:54 PM CST for 5 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jan 17, 2016, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 16, 2016, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 17, 2016, 4:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 17, 2016, 10:52 AM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Greeley County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Polk County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 2016-01-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2016-01-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -86 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.