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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Anchorage, AK

June 5, 2018

NWS Anchorage, AK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2018, 11:18 PM AKDT. It was in force for 27 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 5, 2018, 11:18 PM AKDT (07:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2018, 11:45 PM AKDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Anchorage, AK
Area
Storm-based polygon

The radar

The Bethel radar (PABC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:17 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

Bethel, (PBET), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 71 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, Bethel, at 00:00Z on 2018-06-06Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bethel, at 00:00Z on 2018-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

529 
WUAK58 PAFC 060718
SVRAFC
AKZ155-060745-
/O.NEW.PAFC.SV.W.0002.180606T0718Z-180606T0745Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Anchorage AK
1118 PM AKDT Tue Jun 5 2018

The National Weather Service in Anchorage has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  East central Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska...

* Until 1145 PM AKDT

* At 1118 PM AKDT, Doppler radar indicated a line of severe
  thunderstorms capable of producing quarter size hail and damaging
  winds in excess of 60 mph. These storms were located along a line
  extending from 43 miles south of Napaskiak to 20 miles east of
  Tuntutuliak, and moving southwest at 25 mph.

* Locations impacted include...
  Eek and Apokak. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Severe thunderstorms produce damaging winds, destructive hail, deadly
lightning and very heavy rain. For your protection, move to an
interior room on the lowest floor of your home or business. Heavy
rains flood roads quickly so do not drive into areas where water
covers the road.

&&

LAT...LON 6035 16200 6009 16163 5988 16193 6008 16225
      6018 16222 6012 16231 6017 16240 6020 16231
      6023 16235
TIME...MOT...LOC 0718Z 035DEG 21KT 6008 16170 6031 16208 

$$
1 follow-up statement
602 
WWAK58 PAFC 060733
SVSAFC

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Anchorage AK
1132 PM AKDT Tue Jun 5 2018

AKZ155-060745-
/O.CON.PAFC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-180606T0745Z/
Kuskokwim Delta-
1132 PM AKDT Tue Jun 5 2018

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM AKDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KUSKOKWIM DELTA...

At 1132 PM AKDT, Doppler radar indicated severe thunderstorms capable
of producing quarter size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60
mph. These storms were located along a line extending from 47 miles
east of Kwigillingnok to 18 miles east of Tuntutuliak, moving
southwest at 25 mph.

These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of
southeastern Kuskokwim Delta.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Severe thunderstorms produce damaging winds, destructive hail, deadly
lightning and very heavy rain. For your protection move to an
interior room on the lowest floor of your home or business. Heavy
rains flood roads quickly so do not drive into areas where water
covers the road.

&&

LAT...LON 6021 16193 6004 16173 5990 16194 6008 16224
TIME...MOT...LOC 0732Z 035DEG 21KT 6002 16179 6025 16217 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Anchorage, AK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 10:48 PM AKDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAFC27 min
Jun 6, 3:52 AM AKDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAFC48 hr
Jun 6, 3:41 PM AKDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAFC36 hr
Jun 6, 3:51 PM AKDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAFC39 min
Jun 6, 3:56 PM AKDTSmall Craft AdvisoryAFC7 days

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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.