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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

April 28, 2021Howard County, Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2021, 2:21 AM CDT for Howard County, Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 28, 2021, 2:21 AM CDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2021, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

126 
WWUS83 KGID 280721
SPSGID

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
221 AM CDT Wed Apr 28 2021
 
NEZ041-047-048-280800-
Merrick NE-Nance NE-Howard NE-
221 AM CDT Wed Apr 28 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NANCE...MERRICK AND HOWARD
COUNTIES UNTIL 300 AM CDT...

At 220 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Farwell to near Elba to near St. Paul to St.
Libory. Movement was northeast at 35 mph.

Half inch hail and wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph will be possible with
these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Central City, St. Paul, Fullerton, Palmer, Clarks, Farwell, Cushing,
St. Libory and Archer.

LAT...LON 4146 9784 4140 9780 4123 9777 4120 9780
      4119 9780 4116 9784 4101 9828 4105 9828
      4105 9842 4110 9843 4116 9848 4120 9856
      4122 9868 4141 9822 4150 9792
TIME...MOT...LOC 0720Z 237DEG 29KT 4123 9864 4125 9849 4122 9841 4115
9837 4108 9835

$$

Heinlein

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	39 min
Apr 27, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson, Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	46 min
Apr 27, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	42 min
Apr 27, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	49 min
Apr 28, 12:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	44 min
Apr 28, 12:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	48 min
Apr 28, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	42 min
Apr 28, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton	45 min
Apr 28, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall	43 min
Apr 28, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.