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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this high wind watch at Mar 11, 2026, 9:56 PM CDT for 10 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 12, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2026, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2026, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2026, 11:56 AM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
Counties Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 2119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.