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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this blizzard warning at Jan 4, 2025, 3:31 PM CST for Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Nebraska; 4 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 5, 2025, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 15 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
- Jan 4, 2025, 3:31 PM CST (21:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 5, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Smith County, KS, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 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 Jan 4, 11:43 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 11:43 AM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 4, 4:36 AM CST, 10 hours 55 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook...CORRECTED National Weather Service Hastings NE 436 AM CST Sat Jan 4 2025 KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087- 051045- Phillips-Smith-Jewell-Rooks-Osborne-Mitchell-Valley-Greeley-Nance- Sherman-Howard-Merrick-Polk-Dawson-Buffalo-Hall-Hamilton-York- Gosper-Phelps-Kearney-Adams-Clay-Fillmore-Furnas-Harlan-Franklin- Webster-Nuckolls-Thayer- 436 AM CST Sat Jan 4 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central Nebraska and portions of north central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Our entire 30-county forecast area will be under either a Winter Storm Warning or Winter Weather Advisory today through tonight, due to the expectation of light freezing drizzle/freezing rain initially, then followed by snowfall that will vary widely in amounts from north to south. Please refer to the latest Warning/Advisory statements for more details. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. On Sunday, our entire 30-county forecast area will remain under either a Winter Storm Warning or Winter Weather Advisory through 6 PM, due to continued accumulating snow and blowing snow. Please refer to the latest Warning/Advisory statements for more details. Once snow moves out of our entire area by Sunday evening, the main concern shifts to our first round of truly, bitterly cold temperatures and wind chills this winter. Late Sunday night into Monday morning, wind chill readings as cold as -10 to -20 degrees are likely across most of our area. Then, both Monday night into Tuesday morning, and again Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, wind chills of at least -10 to -15 degrees are likely. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report any instances of slick roads from freezing drizzle/freezing rain today into this evening, and also to report any measured snow amounts tonight into Sunday. && More information may be obtained at the following web page: https://www.weather.gov/hastings Pfannkuch
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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.