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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this high wind watch at Apr 16, 2018, 2:54 PM CDT for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 17, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2018, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2018, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2018, 11:55 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 2156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Apr 16, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 12:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 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.