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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS North Platte, NE

January 22, 2005Cherry County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jan 22, 2005, 11:56 AM MST for Cherry County, Keya Paha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 22, 2005, 11:56 AM MST (18:56 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 2005, 12:30 PM MST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS North Platte, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cherry County, NE, Keya Paha County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 12:00Z on 2005-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2005-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS53 KLBF 221900
FFWLBF
NEC031-103-221930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TEST...FLASH FLOOD WARNING...TEST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
1156 AM MST SAT JAN 22 2005

...THIS BULLETIN IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY...
...NO FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING IN THE MENTIONED AREAS...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VALENTINE
  KEYA PAHA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGVIEW

* UNTIL 1230 PM MST (130 PM CST)

* AT 1256 PM CST...THIS IS A TEST OF THE AREA WIDE NOTIFICATION 
  SYSTEM.

TEST...TEST...TEST...ONCE AGAIN...THERE IS NO FLASH FLOODING 
OCCURRING. THIS IS ONLY A TEST.

LAT...LON 4211 10200 4213 10023 4286 10021 4276 9967
      4285 9932 4298 9933 4296 10206

$$

KECK

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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.