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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at May 5, 2021, 5:21 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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
- May 5, 2021, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2021, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 2562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
555 WWUS83 KGID 052221 SPSGID Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Hastings NE 521 PM CDT Wed May 5 2021 KSZ019-052245- Mitchell KS- 521 PM CDT Wed May 5 2021 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM CDT... At 520 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Beloit, moving east at 25 mph. Penny size hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Rural areas south of Beloit. LAT...LON 3931 9824 3948 9818 3944 9793 3922 9793 TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 281DEG 21KT 3938 9812 $$ Wesely
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Merrick | 31 min |
| May 5, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 34 min |
| May 5, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Clay | 25 min |
| May 5, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 37 min |
| May 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 35 min |
| May 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 35 min |
| May 5, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 43 min |
| May 5, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 40 min |
| May 5, 4:06 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | GID | Greeley, Sherman, Valley | 17 hr |
| May 5, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 29 min |
| May 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Fillmore | 30 min |
| May 5, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 27 min |
| May 5, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 26 min |
| May 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Smith | 23 min |
| May 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 24 min |
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.