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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 17, 2025, 3:35 AM CDT for 16 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 17, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 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 17, 2025, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 17, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2025, 7:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Valley County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 96 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 17, 12:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 12:53 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:09 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:35 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 11 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:19 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 29 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.