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Special Weather Statement, NWS Hastings, NE

July 17, 2021Franklin County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2021, 4:43 AM CDT for Franklin County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 17, 2021, 4:43 AM CDT (09:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2021, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

Counties Franklin County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 989 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 12:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson, Gosper	60 min
Jul 17, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	44 min
Jul 17, 1:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	68 min
Jul 17, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas, Gosper	42 min
Jul 17, 4:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Harlan, Phelps	49 min
Jul 17, 4:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Furnas, Gosper	109 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nebraska, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.