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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

March 5, 2022Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 5, 2022, 2:22 AM CST for Mitchell County, Kansas. It took effect at Mar 5, 2022, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 3 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
Mar 5, 2022, 2:22 AM CST (08:22 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 5, 2022, 10:00 AM CST
Expired
Mar 5, 2022, 1:29 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2022-03-05Temperature 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2022-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 292 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 2:44 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementGIDFranklin31 min
Mar 5, 8:42 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryGIDBuffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Greeley, Howard, Sherman and 1 more12 hr
Mar 5, 2:18 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips27 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.