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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Omaha, NE

February 27, 2021Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 27, 2021, 2:45 PM CST for Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska. It took effect at Feb 27, 2021, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 27, 2021, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 27, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 28, 2021, 9:00 AM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 300 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2021-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2021-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.