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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

April 4, 2021Adams County, Franklin County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2021, 6:21 PM CDT for Adams County, Franklin County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2021, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2021, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Adams County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 4, 6:47 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 55	1 W Heartwell, NE	OUTFLOW FROM WEAK CONVECTION. MEASURED VIA PERSONAL WEATHER STATION.
Apr 4, 6:48 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 54	3 Ene Heartwell, NE	OUTFLOW FROM WEAK CONVECTION. MEASURED VIA PERSONAL WEATHER STATION.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

571 
WWUS83 KGID 042321
SPSGID

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
621 PM CDT Sun Apr 4 2021
 
NEZ061-062-073>075-084-085-050000-
Franklin NE-Buffalo NE-Adams NE-Webster NE-Hall NE-Phelps NE-
Kearney NE-
621 PM CDT Sun Apr 4 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN FRANKLIN...NORTHWESTERN
WEBSTER...ADAMS...KEARNEY...EASTERN BUFFALO AND SOUTHERN HALL
COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM CDT...

At 621 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking showers along a line 
extending from near Kearney to Norman to 6 miles north of Franklin. 
Movement was northeast at 35 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this activity.

Locations impacted include...
Kearney, Hastings, Minden, Gibbon, Wood River, Shelton, Blue Hill,
Kenesaw, Juniata, Axtell, Hildreth, Campbell, Bladen, Roseland,
Holstein, Upland, Bloomington, Ayr, Heartwell and Prosser.

LAT...LON 4098 9887 4071 9829 4028 9837 4009 9909
      4039 9905 4064 9923
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 237DEG 30KT 4066 9903 4047 9880 4019 9893 

$$

Thies

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 3:07 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	5 hr
Apr 4, 4:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper	44 min
Apr 4, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Phelps	38 min
Apr 4, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	40 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.