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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2000, 8:27 PM CDT for Frontier County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2000, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Frontier County, NE, Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KLBF 140223 COR FFWLBF NEC063-111-140330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION OF FLOODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 827 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CURTIS SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...FRONTIER COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICIAL REPORTED A FLASH FLOOD NORTH OF MAYWOOD ON HIGHWAY 83 WHERE WATER IS RUNNING OVER THE ROAD. ALSO...SNOW PLOWS ARE OUT TO REMOVE HAIL. SEVERAL VEHICLES HAVE LEFT THE ROAD DUE TO WATER AND HAIL. THE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY IN SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY AND NORTHWEST FRONTIER COUNTY...BUT THEY WERE WEAKENING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN NORTH PLATTE. LAT...LON 4060 10074 4044 10045 4074 10024 4104 10029 $$ SPRINGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Aug 14, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 54 min |
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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.