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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE

August 1, 2001Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2001, 1:19 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 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 1, 2001, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2001, 4:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:23 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 25 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1721 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2001-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1721 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLBF 010621
FFWLBF

NEC111-010915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
119 AM CDT WED AUG 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 415 AM CDT

* AT 113 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM WALLACE TO NORTH PLATTE TO THE LOGAN COUNTY 
  LINE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...  
  OVER AND NEAR NORTH PLATTE THROUGH 215 AM CDT
  RANGE AND FARM LAND OF SOUTWEST AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY THROUGH
  415 AM CDT

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGI&NS RISING.

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 4076 10117 4077 10033 4132 10032 4133 10117
$$
CDC

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln55 min
Jul 31, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBrown, Rock60 min
Jul 31, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd, Holt56 min
Jul 31, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCuster35 min
Jul 31, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFBoyd, Holt61 min
Aug 1, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFLincoln61 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.