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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Hastings, NE

March 28, 202121 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this fire weather watch at Mar 28, 2021, 4:07 AM CDT for 21 counties in Nebraska; 6 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2021, 4:07 AM CDT (09:07 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 28, 2021, 2:50 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
All 27 counties

Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2021-03-28Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2021-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
2643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 4:07 AM CDTRed Flag WarningGIDDawson, Furnas, Gosper15 hr
Mar 28, 2:50 PM CDTRed Flag WarningGIDAdams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more34 hr
Mar 28, 2:56 PM CDTHigh Wind WatchGIDDawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps and 1 more24 hr

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.