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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this winter storm watch at Apr 28, 2017, 3:26 PM CDT for 12 counties in Nebraska; Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It took effect at Apr 29, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2017, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 29, 2017, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2017, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Apr 28, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 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.