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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

June 25, 2021Polk County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2021, 1:29 PM CDT for Polk County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: Jun 25, 2021, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2021, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

County Polk County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.

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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: 381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 25, 12:35 PM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 12:35 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:29 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Hastings NE
129 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

NEZ048-049-251915-
Merrick NE-Polk NE-
129 PM CDT Fri Jun 25 2021

At 126 PM CDT, the public reported a funnel cloud in the showers
over Polk County. These funnels are unlikely to touch the ground.
These showers are moving northeast at 20 mph.

Locations impacted include...
Osceola, Shelby and Silver Creek.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Conditions in the atmosphere may allow development of weak, brief
funnel clouds. These funnels are usually harmless, but on rare
occasions can briefly touch down and cause wind gusts over 50 mph.
If a funnel approaches your location, move indoors. Please contact
the National Weather Service if you see a funnel cloud.

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LAT...LON 4112 9764 4126 9781 4131 9777 4131 9771
      4139 9770 4139 9760 4133 9760 4133 9758
      4136 9752 4137 9745 4139 9739 4139 9737
      4118 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 1826Z 208DEG 19KT 4121 9755

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	34 min
Jun 25, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	45 min
Jun 25, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	45 min
Jun 25, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	14 min
Jun 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	37 min
Jun 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	46 min
Jun 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Sherman	39 min
Jun 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	37 min
Jun 25, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	49 min
Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	41 min
Jun 25, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman	32 min
Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	45 min
Jun 25, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	26 min
Jun 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Greeley	50 min
Jun 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard, Merrick	48 min
Jun 25, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Kearney, Phelps	29 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.