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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1999, 8:10 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1999, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1999, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 8:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Moorefield, NE | Thunderstorms moved through Frontier County produced damaging wind. In and near Moorefield, a greenhouse was destroyed as a metal shed was picked up from its foundation, lifted over a van and dropped onto the greenhouse. Wood from the inside the shed was drive |
| Aug 17, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Stockville, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 7:24 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
NEZ005-023-024-035-036-056-057-180125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 724 PM CDT (624 PM MDT) TUE AUG 17 1999 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 644 CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR CHERRY...GRANT...HOOKER...ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...DEUEL...AND KEITH COUNTY UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ALL SEVERE WEATHER HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSED A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TO THE SEVEN COUNTIES THAT HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH. WERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Chase | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hayes | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.