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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS North Platte, NE
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.
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, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 60 min |
| Jul 31, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 56 min |
| Jul 31, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 61 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.