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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this blizzard warning at Dec 24, 2023, 3:07 AM CST for 17 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Dec 25, 2023, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 19 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
- Dec 24, 2023, 3:07 AM CST (09:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 25, 2023, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2023, 6:34 PM CST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton 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, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard 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 blizzard warning went out at Dec 23, 11:38 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 11:38 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 3:07 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 71 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:44 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 12 more | 36 hr |
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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.