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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE

April 4, 202220 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Apr 4, 2022, 3:25 PM CDT for 20 counties in Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Apr 5, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2022, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 5, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE

All 24 counties

Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 2077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 4, 12:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 12:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 4, 12:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 3:25 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	GID	Furnas	24 hr
Apr 4, 3:28 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas, Gosper and 11 more	13 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2022 Red Flag Warnings in Kansas, 2022 Every red flag warning in 2022

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.